Amina Hussain is Principal Flute of the Manchester Camerata, and has freelanced as an orchestral flute player since leaving the RNCM in 1998. She has worked with many major orchestras across the UK and abroad, playing BBC Proms concerts, festivals such as Glastonbury and Isle of Wight Festival, and numerous orchestral recordings and live broadcasts for radio and television, in both classical and pop.
Alongside her career as a stage performer, Amina has worked extensively in community and education, leading creative music-making for social development and wellbeing and specialising in dementia and older adult mental health. Her involvement in Manchester Camerata’s Music in Mind dementia programme, led Amina to study music therapy with Nordoff-Robbins, and in 2019, qualified with her Masters (Nordoff-Robbins Master Music Therapy). This has put her in a unique position of being a music therapist resident within an orchestra, and allows for her roles as a performer, community musician and music therapist to inform each other and develop the role of the orchestra within it’s own local community.
Amina is also Co-Director of String of Hearts CIC, which is passionate about connecting older adults through music-making. Face-to-face sessions, online groups and a Telephone Music Hotline designed for those without access to the internet take place in the local communities of Trafford, Wythenshawe and Manchester, with a particular focus on connecting with isolated people through the pandemic.
