Award‑winning flautist blending classical, folk, and cinematic sound worlds


Over two decades the award-winning, classically-trained flautist and composer Eliza Marshall has worked with an abundance of artists, orchestras and film composers across the world.
Touring with the likes of Peter Gabriel and Amjad Ali Khan to fronting her own folk four-piece Ranagri and the acclaimed Freedom to Roam project, Eliza has made a name for herself as an innately curious and talented multi-instrumentalist whose music is genre-defying and kaleidoscopic. She is now embarking on an exciting new chapter, showcasing her own compositions on a debut solo album Eternal Birth, a cinematic celebration of the cycle of life, released this January 2026.
Cross genre music making is at the core of Eliza’s creative world, with a particular love of the music from Scotland and Africa. She is most happy at the top of a mountain, or on a small Hebridean island, with her border collie Molly.
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One of the most multi-faceted flautists of her time, Eliza’s musical path has followed her musical passions; diverse, organic and without boundaries. She has toured internationally with Peter Gabriel’s New Blood Orchestra, recorded with Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, First Aid Kit and The White Stripes, at the BBC Proms with Florence and The Machine, as a soloist on Hollywood soundtracks including Disney’s Mufasa, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus and Robin Hood. Featuring her unique Indian bansuri playing, she appeared for the World Première of Joby Talbot’s ballet ‘The Winter’s Tale’, as onstage soloist at The Royal Opera House accompanied by Orchestra of Covent Garden, followed by performances at Opera Houses in Vienna, Brisbane and Hamburg. It received 5* reviews from the telegraph and all major critics. She has performed as a soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra for BBC Radio 3 commissions, and is Artistic Director of the acclaimed Freedom To Roam project, described in Songlines Folk Focus as ‘Lovingly crafted and alive with motion. So inspirational and thought provoking.’
Highlights of 2025 saw Eliza release her debut EP New Birth with digital label Real World X, with Mark Radcliffe on BBC Radio 2describing Eliza and Ranagri: ‘I was kind of blown away.’
‘Eliza Marshall picks up the flute, an instrument often associated with the classical, even old-fashioned, and sends it into an entirely new space.’ Indie Boulevard
She returned to The Royal Opera House, London, for Joby Talbot’s Like Water For Chocolate,featuring her flute, ocarinas and cedar wood instruments, and travelled to Kenya to co-write and perform in Kenya’s oldest cave as part of a commission from The British Council with Settle Stories and Msitu wa Ndoto. She appeared in Montrèal at Folk Alliance International as Official Showcase Artists with Ranagri, and worked with Jules Buckley for Florence and the Machine’s chart topping #1 album, Everybody Scream, plus recordings on numerous films scores across the year.
Solo performances saw Eliza at The Union Chapel twice inn 2025, opening for Cameroonian singer Blick Bassy, and Italian pianist Andrea Vanzo, with her own headline tour across the UK performing with Senegalese percussionist Ady Thioune. Her upcoming debut album, Eternal Birth, set for release early 2026 on One World Records.
‘Mesmerising, uplifting, joyful and driven by a profound love of nature and of life itself. Extraordinary musicianship.’ Matthew Bannister, Folk On Foot
‘The fabulous flute of Eliza Marshall.’ Peter Gabriel
No stranger to radio broadcasts, Eliza has appeared as soloist with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for Classic FM, on In Tune for Radio 3 (Freedom To Roam/Korros Ensemble), RTE Lyric FM, BBC Radio 2 with Mark Radcliffe (Ranagri) and on the Terry Wogan Show (Tony Christie & Ranagri), and all national BBC radios. Her music can regularly be heard on many local folk shows and she has been interviewed by Rob Hopkins’ From What If To What Next podcast.
With a love for crossing musical boundaries and bringing together musicians and music from all over the world – Eliza is passionate about the binding qualities that cross-cultural music-making has to offer. Tours and collaborations have taken Eliza all over Africa, North and South America, throughout Europe, Scandinavia, India, Japan and Australia.
Support/Endorsements

Fatea Magazine awards
Freedom To Roam
Innovation Project 2021
Ranagri
Band of the Year 2022
Solo
Instrumentalist of the Year 2023
Eliza is a proud Patron for the Born Free Foundation, and was awarded an ARAM in 2022 for her innovative contributions to the performance industry as an alumni of The Royal Academy of Music.
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Stage & Studio Work
ARTISTS
A-ha
Abel Selaocoe
Alexander Armstrong
Alfie Boe
Alison Moyet
Bat For Lashes
Bette Midler
Bonnie Tyler
Catrin Finch
Craig David
First Aid Kit
Florence & the Machine
Groove Armada
Kate Walsh
Katie Melua
Ladyhawke
Michael Buble
Paul McCartney
Peter Gabriel
Robbie Williams
Rufus Wainwright
Sam Smith
Seckou Keita
Stacey Kent
Stevie Wonder
The Divine Comedy
The Feeling
The White Stripes
Tony Christie
Travis
UB40
Composers
Alan Silvestri
Alexandre Desplat
A R Rahman
Daft Punk
Danny Elfman
David Arnold
Ennio Morricone
Garth Knox
George Fenton
Hans Zimmer
Harry Gregson-Williams
Howard Shore
James Horner
James Newton Howard
Johan Söderqvist
Joby Talbot
John Metcalf
John Powell
Lorne Balfe
Marc Streitenfeld
Mark Mothersbaugh
Paul Englishby
Terry Davies
Orchestras
BBC Concert Orchestra – principal
Royal Ballet Sinfonia – principal
Orchestra of Covent Garden
The London Symphony Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
London Mozart Players
London Sinfonietta
Britten Sinfonia
West End Shows
Chair holder: The Lion King 2015 – present.
Into The Woods, Beauty and the Beast.
Deputy: Oliver, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Lord of the Rings, The Secret Garden.
Chamber
Bang On A Can
Korros Ensemble
Catrin Finch and Friends
Red Note Ensemble
music
projects

Freedom To Roam
Eliza is Artistic Director of pioneering multi-media project Freedom To Roam; commissioning an album, written by Jackie Shave, Catrin Finch, Dónal Rogers and Eliza, co-producing a new documentary with director Nicholas Jones, and collaborating with visual artist Amelia Kosminsky to direct the epic production Freedom To Roam: The Rhythms Of Migration. Fatea Magazine’s Innovation Project Award winner 2021, it was supported by Arts Council of England and The Royal Philharmonic Society Foundation.
The Award-Winning production toured across the UK, receiving 5* reviews with standing ovations, and in 2024 they collaborated with Ballet Folk, lead by choreographer Deborah Ward, performing at Folk East and Shrewsbury Folk Festivals.
Working as co-producer for the documentary ’Connected’, Eliza harnessed many people including Virginia McKenna and Will Travers of the Born Free Foundation, Alan Watson Featherstone who founded Trees For Life, Nick Hayes – author ‘The Book Of Trespass’, Nick Ray, recently voted No 2 in The Herald Top 20 Scot’s People 2022, and Alexandra Mckenzie who planted 50,000 trees with children from Glasgow as part of cop26.

Ranagri
Eliza is a founder member of Award-Winning folk group Ranagri who have 5 highly acclaimed albums, have signed with prestigious folk label Stockfisch Records, and have appeared all over the UK, Germany and Ireland, at festivals including Cambridge, Cropredy, Shrewsbury, Wickham, Montelago Celtic Festival (Italy), and venues such as The Union Chapel, Birmingham Symphony Hall and Buxton Opera House, receiving Fatea Magazine’s Best Band of 2022 Award. They have recently been signed to USA agency Wooden Ship Productions, and will be travelling to New Orleans and Australia during 2026.
press
Indie Boulevard
New Birth
Illustrate Magazine
New Birth
At The Barrier
New Birth
Quayslife
Freedom to Roam: Rhythms of Migration
RAM
Alumini Spotlight:
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Finding ‘freedom to roam’
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