Sarah Humphrys 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, Basel, Switzerland where she studied baroque oboe with Katharina Arfken, recorder with Kathrin Bopp and shawm with Randall Cook. She has also received coaching from many more of the world’s leading experts in historical performance.

She freelances regularly with baroque orchestras and ensembles throughout Europe and has made a number of radio broadcasts with the BBC. Recent engagements include a recording with Cantus Cölln, concerts with the Hanover Band, the Gabrieli Consort, the Dufay Collective, Ad Fontes and L’arpe festante. In 2005-2006 she toured with the European Union Baroque Orchestra as principal oboe with directors Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Margaret Faultless, Ton Koopman, Jaap ter Linden and Edward Higginbottom. She is also a member of the medieval ensemble Mediva, the recorder quintet Fontanella and The Oboe Band, ensemble in residence at the Royal College of Music. Sarah also plays regularly and has musical directed at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London.

Sarah is also committed to education and holds recorder teaching posts at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and Highgate Junior School. She also runs masterclasses and workshops for recorder players and early musicians of all ages and abilities throughout the UK including Woodhouse Recorder Week for advanced players aged 16-25.