I’m a UK-based musician and producer whose work predominantly spans the fields of historical performance, classical music production, and music technology.
I trained at the Royal College of Music, London in the 1990s, as a pianist and harpsichordist, and have since played with almost all the major UK period instrument ensembles and many modern chamber orchestras: OAE, The Sixteen, London Baroque, Florilegium, Benedetti Baroque, Scottish Ensemble, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia, and others. I’m currently a permanent member of La Serenissima, Passacaglia and Feinstein Ensemble, and I teach at Birmingham Conservatoire.
Alongside performing, I’ve always recorded and produced other musicians, typically for album-length projects destined for CD and online digital distribution – now approaching 50 albums. Clients include The Brook Street Band, Fontanella, Ensemble Augelletti, Olwen Foulkes, Anna Paradiso, Annabel Knight & The Maggini Quartet, European Union Chamber Orchestra, New Vialles, and Musical & Amicable Society. I’ve also undertaken dozens of major projects for ABRSM, Faber, Schott and Boosey & Hawkes. I work as a freelance producer, sound recordist and editor, with occasional forays into multi-camera video.
Complementing my playing and production work, I’ve been a regular author for the recording magazine Sound on Sound for 25 years, writing about cutting-edge music production software and hardware, and music production techniques. A few people might also know the band I founded and played with, Art of Moog, which from 2018-23 performed the music of JS Bach on synthesizers.
Robin Bigwood, November 2025