Olwen is a recorder player, curator and educator with a love of eighteenth-century chamber music
In 2019 Olwen founded chamber music group Ensemble Augelletti who were selected as the BBC New Generation Baroque Ensemble (2023-5) and City Music Foundation Artists (2024-5).
She has released multiple solo CDs, plays with period instrument ensembles including the Academy of Ancient Music, Dunedin Consort and London Handel Players, and has performed in contemporary chamber operas at the Royal Opera House and projects with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Olwen is particularly interested in curating and programming around music of the 17th and 18th centuries to tell stories through different contextual lenses. Olwen programmes for Ensemble Augelletti and was appointed as Co-Artistic Director of Brighton Early Music Festival alongside her colleague Hannah Ely in 2024. Olwen is a Curator at Handel Hendrix House where she designs exhibitions, talks and tours, and writes material for the museum interpretation and information guides.
Olwen was a Britten Pears Arts ‘Future Leader’ in 2024 and selected to join the REMArkable European Early Music network in 2025. She is completing a PhD on the early 18th century London music scene at the Royal Academy of Music where she is also an Academic Studies teacher. Olwen has 10 years of experience working as a primary school classroom music teacher (The American School in London) and was a central part of developing the innovative ‘Band Time’ programme for early years at Trinity Laban.