British flute and recorder player Ashley Solomon enjoys a successful career as soloist, chamber musician and guest director in the UK, across Europe, as well as the Americas, far East, and Australia. He is the director of Florilegium, the baroque ensemble he co-founded in 1991, and has made close forty recordings with them, many of which have garnered international awards.

Combining a successful career across both theory and practice, Ashley is also Head of Historical Performance at London’s Royal College of Music. In 2014 he was awarded a Personal Chair, and he is both a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music (2017) and Royal College of Music (2019).

Ashley and Jochewed share an appreciation of historical music instruments, insistence on understanding the music written for them as well as it’s cultural background and the desire to present music long forgotten, implementing their rich experience and gathered knowledge.

With flexible programmes, lecture-recitals, workshops and masterclasses, the duo performs and teaches on traverso/recorder with harpsichord, spinet and square piano, tailoring each event to the space and audience.

Their recently recorded two-CD album of flute and keyboard sonatas by J. Ch. F. Bach was released in October 2024 on Meridian Records (UK).

“One has the feeling that Solomon and Schwarz have addressed each concept and gesture. Masters of historically informed music-making, they revealed the narrative and enigmas that emerge from Bach’s music—elements that indeed defy words.” (P. Hickman, 2022) “In Jochewed Schwarz’s hands, the keyboard sound has a fine range of colours and subtlety, complementing Ashley Solomon’s sophisticated playing.” (R. Hugill, Planet Hugill, 2024)