I grew up in the south of England and began exploring music from a young age. I eventually ended up studying for a batchelor's degree in Music at Clare College, Cambridge and then focused on playing at the Royal Northern College of Music, studying viola performance with Yuko Inoue.

 I enjoyed my time in Manchester immensely and was planning to stay, but an adventurous impulse led me to answer an advert looking for musicians to go to South America and I joined the viola section of the Orquesta Sinfonica del Valle in Cali, Colombia. I stayed for two years, playing in the orchestra and various chamber groups, teaching at the conservatoire and travelling and exploring Colombian life.

 When I returned to the UK, I moved to London and began freelancing in orchestras and chamber ensembles. Another new chapter also began when I joined the band iO - this was a large collective of musicians from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (and their friends) who wrote and developed original material inspired by a wide variety of world, pop and jazz music. It was my introduction into playing this kind of groove based music, and into improvisation and collaborative composition.

Of course I wanted to explore this even further and enrolled at the Guildhall to study on the course where many of my fellow band members had met (now known as the Leadership programme). I learned and developed creative skills which have informed my practice ever since; my own playing and ensemble work, as well as my teaching practice and educational work with larger groups.

 In the summer of 2005 I set out to walk the Camino, from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostella. Here I met my (Dutch) husband, another new path opened up and in 2007 I moved to the Netherlands. Here I continued freelancing in orchestras and ensembles, but now specialising more in pop, jazz, world and light music, for which I have also been composing and arranging. I also continue my teaching practice, giving individual lessons to adults and children and creative composition workshops to larger groups.

 In the last few years I have become more and more interested in and drawn to free improvisation. I joined Moving Strings, a collective of musicians researching and exploring the boundaries of music, sound, movement and dance. This led me to begin studying somatic movement and instant composition with Iris van Peppen and Marisa Grande. In addition I’ve been interested in meditation for quite some time and have developed a regular practice over the last years. It’s one of my chief interests at the moment; the integration of mind, body and space and how this relates to my artistic practice.