Hatty is a violinist enjoying a varied musical life performing as a recitalist, chamber and orchestral musician on both modern and historical instruments.

Hatty has recently been appointed as a member of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, as No.3 in the Second Violins. She was previously a member of the 1st violins of the London Mozart Players, where she also sat as co-leader and Principal 2nd Violin. Alongside her position with the SCO, Hatty regularly plays with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields and La Serenissima. She has performed internationally in venues including Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Royal Albert Hall, Salzburg Großen Festspielhauses, Suntory Hall and the Berlin Philharmonie. 

Chamber music plays a vital role in Hatty’s musical life and she is a member of Parnassus Ensemble, a flexible early music collective. She was previously the 1st Violinist of the Gildas Quartet, with whom she performed a memorised performance of Britten’s 2nd Quartet at Kings Place ‘Sound Unwrapped’ Festival, and also appeared at Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpormmen and Lake District Summer Music Festival. Hatty has performed with quartets including the Consone and Eusebius Quartets, and collaborated with artists including Alexander Melnikov, Andrew Marriner, Levon Chilingirian, Jess Gillam and Milos Karadaglic. 

Hatty gained a 1st Class Bachelor of Music (Honours) from the Royal Academy of Music and a Masters degree with Distinction from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she also held an Artist Fellowship. During her studies at RAM, Hatty was awarded the J&A Beare Bow prize which is awarded annually to the most promising graduating student in the strings department. She was also the recipient of numerous awards including the Waddell Prize, John Waterhouse Prize, Amadeus Prize, Sir John Barbirolli Prize and the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize. Her studies were generously supported by Help Musicians UK, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Tillett Trust, Thompson Educational Trust, Craxton Memorial Trust, Lumbs Foundation, Kathleen Trust and the Stephen Bell Trust.

Hatty has studied with Krysia Osostowicz, Stephanie Gonley, So-Ock Kim, and Nicolette Moonen and Pavlo Beznosiuk (baroque violin). She was invited to IMS Prussia Cove to study with Andras Keller, and has benefitted greatly from coaching with Alasdair Beatson, Catherine Manson and Christoph Richter via Chamberstudio mentorships and the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme. She is incredibly grateful to the Albert Cooper Trust and the Harrison Frank Foundation for their support.