Singing with Nightingales is a one-of-a-kind experience where guest musicians join Sam Lee each spring to improvise with the virtuosic and critically endangered Nightingale. For 7 weeks from mid-April through the end of May, we host these transformative duets and are thrilled to have with us…

Otto Hashmi is a recorder player and solo artist from London. His most recent EP ‘Music for the End Times’ fuses sounds of the post-covid London club scene with recorder harmonies inspired by early music and was followed by UK and EU performances including supporting acclaimed jazz musician Shabaka Hutchings’ for his first solo set on indigenous flutes.

Otto’s work is inspired by the uncertainty of our modern times, with the purity of acoustic sound taking equal importance alongside technological accelerationism in contradictory and progressive sound worlds. His work with the recorder makes frequent use of rare instruments such as the contrabass recorder and eCorder electronic recorder instrument.

Otto uses social media to share short-form content bringing the recorder into new contexts, exposing wider audiences to this vastly underappreciated and misunderstood instrument.

So far in 2024 he has composed and performed the original soundtrack for FORAGING directed by Matthew Jacobs Morgan, and recorded on soundtracks for BBC and ZDF broadcasts. He is a final year master's student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.