Robert Howarth is presently Director of Music at Oxford’s University Church, and a conductor and harpsichordist with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He studied music at the University of York where he won the Paynter Prize for his “outstanding musical performance”. He conducts regularly for the Grange Festival and Opera North. He has given Masterclasses at the Royal Academy of Music, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, and the Royal Northern College of Music. Robert was the Music Director of the play Farinelli and the King written by Claire Van Kampen and starring Mark Rylance. Following its premiere at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre, the production transferred to the West End and then to Broadway. His work in the UK has seen him conducting at Opera North, Welsh National Opera, Glyndebourne, Halle Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The English Concert, and Academy of Ancient Music.