Letty Stott
Letty is one of the UK’s most versatile and creative musicians, equally at home working as a soloist, collaborator, lecturer or musical director. Her work with specialist forms of horn has led to her performing as a credited solo artist for numerous major film scores, with her intellectually rigorous approach enabling her to provide historical detail for period-accurate performance.
Letty has provided specialist forms of horn for major film scores including Gladiator II, Nosferatu, The Northman, and Isle of Man and Werewulf (upcoming). She frequently works at recording studios including AIR, Abbey Road and RAK studios as a collaborative musician to composers and film directors, providing artistic direction and specialist knowledge about the instruments that she plays.
Letty’s TV credits as a solo artist playing specialist horns include The Witcher and Dungeons and Dragons (both Netflix), Cecil the Lion (Channel 4), Digging for Britain (BBC2), and Surviving Pompeii (National Geographic, upcoming) and she regularly contributes to BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 programmes, as well as exhibitions at the British Academy.
Letty specialises in forms of horn from the Ancient Greek, Iron Age and early Roman periods, with instruments including the Carnyx, Cornu, Salpinx and Lituus. She also plays natural horns, including conch shells and cow horns, as well as horns from across the world, including alphorns as well as the Tibetan Dung Chen, Nepalese horns and Tibetan bone trumpets.
Letty has been Artist-in-Residence at Snape Maltings, and is undertaking artistic residencies at Hawkwood Centre and EIAF Japan with jazz vocalist Yvette Riby-Williams. Letty is currently studying towards her PhD in Music Archaeology at Manchester University and National Museums Scotland, with her research focussing on copper alloy instruments of the European Iron Age and early Roman period.
Letty studied for her undergraduate degree at Oxford University, with postgraduate studies at Cambridge University where she was a Leverhulme Scholar and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she held a Junior Fellowship. Letty has performed Cornu live from Hadrian’s Wall on BBC Radio 3 Breakfast; she has played conch shells in front of the statue of Darwin at the Natural History Museum in London; and has performed on Carnyx on top of the Italian Alps working with the sports brand Nike.
