Welsh bassoonist Flo Plane studied at Chethams School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. Scholarships from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) and the Countess of Munster Trust enabled two further years of study at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Volker Tessmann.

A passionate chamber musician, Flo is a founder member of Lumas Winds, winners of the Royal Over-Seas League Competition in 2023. They have been Britten Pears Young Artists, leading to a Snape Maltings residency, and as winners of the Kirckman Concert Artists award they will make their King's Place debut in May 2025. Supported by Making Music's Phillip and Dorothy Green Young Artists scheme and the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme, Lumas are a popular ensemble with music societies the length and breadth of the UK. They have performed at the Wigmore Hall, Lake District Summer Music and the Buxton Festival, and have future concerts at the Gower and Peasmarsh Festivals. Following Lumas’s debut album ‘The Naming of Birds’ on the Champs Hill Records label the ensemble was described as ‘one to watch’ in a glowing appraisal on BBC Radio 3 Record Review.

Flo has appeared as a guest bassoonist at the Wye Valley, Corbridge and Penarth Festivals and performed Chabrier’s L’Invitation au Voyage with acclaimed soprano Sophie Bevan at Oxford Song. She joined the Brodsky Quartet and Friends in Schubert’s Octet at the Dante Festival. Flo has been a regular guest bassoonist of Ensemble 360. She has recorded the complete Stravinsky Chamber Music for bassoon with the Royal Academy/ Julliard Ensemble for Linn and made the world premiere recording of Bassoon Dance by Pamela Harrison on Resonus Classics.

As an orchestral musician Flo has worked with the National Symphony Orchestra, Dublin, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Chipping Camden Festival Academy Orchestra and on tour with the Gävle Symfoniorkester.