About

Vienna has been my home now for the past 10 years! With a gorgeous daughter and partner at my side, beautiful friends and an amazing music community- what a home it is!

I grew up in England. I started playing the oboe at 9 years old and went to music college in London. It was definitely a typical “classical music” path at that time- imagine old style teaching, reading sheet music- practicing so that every note was perfect and that I was interpreting it right. (A style of teaching which is still very common today). Whilst my inner perfectionist was having a field day, my creative soul was dying. After I left music college, I was feeling frustrated and I didn’t want to spend my life just playing sheet music. I was searching for connection, my own voice, the confidence and most importantly- the joy of making music with others. I set about devoting my life to refinding that feeling, that music could really be a way of self expression, something natural and playful, grounded in the body.

After years of studying , I now have both- the joy of playing in orchestras and smaller ensembles as part of my work, but my free side, also improvising and creating performances alone and with others.

Teaching has always played a role in my working life. I love it. Being with others, seeing what makes them tick and finding how to inspire and to find out what motivates them is just the one side- learning from them and coming into contact with so many backgrounds and characters is so inspiring! Since I was 20, I have been teaching and working with all ages as private music teacher. The last 8 years I have been working with bigger groups, in schools, kindergartens and privately. It’s been a wonderful learning experience and there is something about working with group energy that has its own pull for me.

My mission is to now enable others to connect to music in a nonjudgemental and playful way, incorporating the whole body. Learning music theory and self expression though exploration, play, and improvisation.

I realize that I am someone who is curious. I love learning more- whether it’s deepening my knowledge of psychology, music, circle singing methods, improvising, learning about the body… thank goodness we have a lifetime!

Vienna, I’m here. If you’re looking for a non conventional way of learning music/english for your child, or you want to be part of community open to exploring, creating and playing with music and movement together, or are looking for oboist who is open to collaborating and improvisation, then I look forward to hearing from you.