Sarah Humphrys

Sarah Humphrys grew up in Devon and started her education at Dartington Primary School and KEVICC, Totnes. She graduated from the Royal College of Music in 2000 in recorder and Baroque oboe. In 2004 she completed three years of postgraduate study at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland where she studied Baroque oboe with Katharina Arfken, recorder with Kathrin Bopp and shawm with Randall Cook. She freelances throughout Europe and has made a number of radio broadcasts with the BBC and recordings for films. She has performed as a concerto soloist with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the European Union Baroque Orchestra and the Hanover Band. She has also performed or recorded with many of the the World's leading period instrument ensembles, such as Cantus Clln, the Gabrieli Consort, the Dufay Collective, the Dunedin Consort, Ex Cathedra, Larpe festante, Charivari Agreable, The London Handel Orchestra, Independent Opera, the Sixteen and Florilegium.. Sarah is a member of Meridiana, winners of the 4th International Telemann Competition 2007 with whom she will tour Romania this summer, the recorder quintet Fontanella, The Oboe Band (Ensemble in Residence at the Royal College of Music) and she plays regularly at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London where she was musical director of Love's Labour's Lost in 2007. In 2005-2006 she was principal oboe of the European Union Baroque Orchestra and toured Europe with Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Jaap ter Linden, Edward Higginbottom, Margaret Faultless and Ton Koopman.Sarah teaches the recorder and coaches Baroque ensembles and recorder consorts at the Royal College of Music Junior Department. She is also a tutor on Woodhouse Recorder Week, Fontanella's advanced recorder course.