Rachel Chaplin received her musical training from Cambridge University, the Royal Academy of Music and Leipzig Hochschule für Musik, alongside formative years in the European Union Youth Orchestra and European Union Baroque Orchestra. She performs and records regularly with many leading period instrument ensembles including English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Classical Opera Company, The King’s Consort and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, also playing an active role in their education and outreach projects. Her own area of musicological interest is the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, which was the subject of her doctoral research.