Caroline Ritchie

Caroline Ritchie (baroque cello/viola da gamba) read music at New College, Oxford, holding an instrumental scholarship and graduating in 2002 with a first class degree. She subsequently studied baroque cello and viol with Jenny Ward Clarke and Richard Campbell at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating in 2004 with distinction and writing her MMus dissertation on the performance of Purcell's Trio Sonatas. While at the RAM, Caroline worked with artists such as Jordi Savall, Andrew Manze, Trevor Pinnock and Sir Roger Norrington, and played in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the BBC Proms, and the Spitalfields Festival. Recent freelance work includes continuo cello for Rameau's Achante et Cephise in Oslo, a series of concerts in Stockholm with her group, the Arcangelo Quartet, and a tour of France with the Academie Baroque Europeene d'Ambronay under Christophe Rousset.