Alexandra Bellamy gained a degree in Music at The Queen’s College, Oxford in 1991 and went on to study the historical oboe with Sophia McKenna and Paul Goodwin at the Royal Academy of Music, London. In 1995 she was principal oboe of the European Union Baroque Orchestra and since then has played with all the main UK period instrument orchestras as well as many others in the rest of Europe. From 1999 – 2008 she was principal oboe of The King’s Consort and can be heard on many of this group’s recordings. She is also a longstanding member of both Paul McCreesh’s Gabrieli Consort and chamber group Florilegium. She plays regularly with Baroque violinist Rachel Podger and her group Brecon Baroque and can be heard on their latest CD of Bach’s Oboe and Violin Concerto.