Kyla-Rae Ashworth

Kyla-Rae is a musician, performer and educator based in Boorloo (Perth), Australia. She is active across a wide range of performance spaces, including classical, folk, contemporary/experimental and improvisation. She holds a Bachelor’s degree with First Class Honours in Music from the University of Western Australia’s Conservatorium of Music, and a Graduate Certificate from the Queensland Conservatorium. 

During her time at university she was the recipient of the Dettman Scholarship, the Janet Anderson Prize for Woodwind, and a Wesley Scholarship. She was also a finalist in the VOSE Memorial Prize concerto competition which saw her perform Jolivet’s Flute Concerto with the UWA Chamber Orchestra at the Perth Concert Hall. She attended the 2019 Australian Flute Festival (AFF) as a finalist in the Open division of the Australian International Flute Competition, and as a performer in masterclass with Denis Bouriakov. Her travel to the AFF was supported by the WA Flutes and Flutists scholarship.

Kyla-Rae has performed and toured internationally with both the Australian Youth Orchestra and the West Australian Youth Orchestra across Europe, China, Japan and Singapore. She is a current casual musician with the West Australian Symphony orchestra, and was a member of the West Coast Philharmonic Orchestra for their 2024-25 season as flautist and acting principal piccolo. 

Together with Chelsea Davis she won the Senior Ensemble division of the 2024 WA Flute Competition. They have also curated and presented several recitals of works for two flutes, with a focus on programming repertoire by living and under-represented composers. 

As a contemporary artist and improviser, Kyla-Rae has attended and performed at the Tilde New Music academy and festival, and Tone List’s Sounding Together 2025, a week of improvised music in (and in collaboration with) WA’s South West. She is a 2025 fellow with international contemporary arts organisation Bang On a Can, and has recently been an artist in residence at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art for their Summer Festival and LOUD Weekend. 

Kyla-Rae teaches flute and loves sharing her joy for music with young people, and chooses to remain a student herself, currently chipping away at saxophone and fingerstyle guitar.