Olwen Foulkes

Recorder player Olwen Foulkes is the current Christopher Hogwood Scholar at the Royal Academy of Music where she is studying at postgraduate level with Pamela Thorby and Anna Stegmann. Olwen has performed solo obbligatos in Bach cantata series with the Sinfonia of St. John’s, Cambridge (directed by Maggie Faultless), Oxford Baroque Soloists, and in the Kohn Foundation series at the Royal Academy of Music. Olwen has recently performed as a concerto soloist with Music For Awhile, 21st Century Baroque, the Amadé Players, and the Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra, and she regularly performs recitals with harpsichordist Nathaniel Mander. Other appearances include dates with Musica Poetica, Hampstead Garden Opera.

Olwen studied in Stockholm with Dan Laurin during 2014-15. Olwen was taught by Peter Holtslag (RAM 2011-2013), and Peter Robinson (Junior Department, Trinity Laban 2004-2010). She graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2014 with a first class hons degree and as a recipient of four awards. As a baroque violinist, Olwen has performed in the Kohn Foundation Bach series, under the baton of Stephen Layton with the Orchestra of Polyphony, with the Amadé Players, under the direction of the late Christopher Hogwood with the Cambridge University Collegium Musicum, and in various concerts with the RAM Baroque Soloists.