About
“Otto’s music challenges the role a recorder plays in an ensemble”
I am a recorder player and solo artist from London. My most recent EP ‘Music for the End Times’ fuses sounds of the post-covid London club scene with recorder harmonies inspired by early music and was followed by UK and EU performances including supporting acclaimed jazz musician Shabaka Hutchings’ for his first solo set on indigenous flutes.
I use the broad spectrum of my experience in both classical and popular music to inform and enrichen my contribution to any musical project. As a session player, I have recorded for projects in the UK, Germany, USA and beyond including recent soundtracks for BBC and ZDF.
As musical director and session musician I have toured Europe and North America, including performances at SXSW, Canadian Music Week, Governor’s Ball NYC. This is on a range of instruments including Keys, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Percussion, Vocals. I am versed in live set arrangement in Ableton Live.
My solo work is inspired by the uncertainty of our modern times, with the purity of acoustic sound taking equal importance alongside technological accelerationism in contradictory and progressive sound worlds. My work with the recorder makes frequent use of rare instruments such as the contrabass recorder and eCorder electronic recorder instrument.
I use social media to share short-form content bringing the recorder into new contexts, exposing wider audiences to this vastly underappreciated and misunderstood instrument.
I received my masters in Recorder performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying Recorder with Ian Wilson and Baroque Oboe with Gail Hennessey. I was awarded a GSMD Concert Recital Diploma for exceptional performance in my final recital.
I received my BA (Hons) Music from the University of Bristol, with an extended focus on recorder performance, musicology with a focus on early music and African-American music, and studio composition. I was winner of the University of Bristol Studio Composition prize upon my graduation for my composition ‘Sleep’.
I am a member of the European Recorder Teachers’ Association.
I am a member of the early music ensemble Londinium Consort.
The Londinium Consort is formed of current students and alumni from London's world-leading conservatoires, who seek to bring new life into the rich tradition of early music performance. Unafraid to explore new perspectives, their 2023 Brighton Festival performance saw the premiere of composer Antonino Abate's work "Chi'l Pensò Mai", and the ensemble will incorporate tape and live electronics into their upcoming work in 2024.
Londinium Consort are the co-winners of the 2024/25 New Elizabethan Award issued by the Worshipful Company of Musicians.