Rachel Brown

Rachel Brown is a British flautist and author, known especially for her work with Baroque music and flutes. She is currently professor of baroque flute at the Royal College of Music in London, in addition to travelling around the world to give master classes. She has performed with many orchestras internationally, including as principal flute with Kent Opera, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Hanover Band, the King's Consort, Collegium Musicum 90, Ex Cathedra, and the Brandenburg Consort. She is known for her extensive work and mastery of both historical and modern flutes.

Biography Brown was born and raised in London. As a child, she studied recorder, flute at age 11 and piano. She was accepted into the Royal College of Music Junior College, where she took private lessons in each of these three instruments and played in a recorder consort. She is a member of the London Handel Players which has recorded many discs of period music on period instruments, in addition to performing regularly at the London Handel Festival and throughout the world.

Personal life Brown is married to a violinist and has a young daughter. (Quantz flute sonatas composed for Frederick the Great, performed on copies of original instruments) Telemann Fantasias; Rachel Brown, baroque flute (flute sonatas, instrumental works, and arias by J. S. Bach)

Books and publications The Early Flute: A Practical Guide, Rachel Brown (2002) Cadenzas for the Bärenreiter edition of Mozart's flute concertos