From 1997 to 2009 I was the Head of Postgraduate Studies and Research at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and I currently teach the viol at the same institution.

I am passionate about performing baroque music on historically accurate instruments, not only studying the techniques of the time but also exploring the environment in which it was written – even what the musicians read and ate. To this end I studied at York (BA), Cambridge (PhD entitled The Forquerays and the French Viol Tradition) and the Brussels Conservatoire, for which I was awarded my Fellowship to study with Wieland Kuijken.

I have performed in venues from the Wigmore Hall, to Fez, to the Sydney Opera House. Together with Andrew Wilson-Dickson, I host Marnaves Summer Baroque, a string summer school in France (www.marnavessummerbaroque.com) which has a parallel emphasis on performers' wellbeing.

I have an international reputation for my research into Baroque music, especially into the viol and French music. My publishers include CUP, OUP, Faber and Heugel. Encouraged by my students and looking at culture from a fresh angle, I published a cookery book, The Grain-free Vegetarian.