Performing

A woman playing a recorder on stage during a children’s performance, with children raising their hands in front of her and paper signs hanging in the background.

Gennie read music at The University of Nottingham before completing postgraduate clarinet and bass clarinet studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance where she held a Trinity College London Scholarship.

A woodwind specialist, Gennie has played with numerous orchestras and ensembles at many of the UK’s top venues and festivals. Highlights include recording an award-winning album with Engines Orchestra as its bass clarinettist, concerts at London Jazz Festival, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, and at Manchester Jazz Festival. As a recorder player, Gennie has performed extensively with the London Recorder Orchestra, as soloist in numerous performances of Alexander L’Estrange’s Christmas work Wassail!, and in over fifty performances with Merryweather Theatre, a London-based arts collective with which she writes and develops interactive folk musicals for children.

Gennie has also developed and performed in various concert series with chamber ensembles The Ashdown Duo and soundSPARK with which she created a performance project for children across London in partnership with Arts Council England.