Recognised as a leading early music specialist, Silas Wollston combines performance and academic research in a varied career. He studied the organ with John Scott before taking up an organ scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge. He then went on to study harpsichord and fortepiano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Conservatoire Royale in Brussels.

A longstanding member of the English Baroque Soloists, he played a major role in Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach cantatas cycle in 2000, performing the organ obbligato of BWV 146 on the Trost organ in Altenburg. He also has significant experience as a choral director, working as director of music at Queen’s College, Cambridge between 2011 and 2015. He has published research on the string music of Locke and Purcell, and on Handel’s compositional process. He is a member of the London Handel Players, The Bach Players, and the ensemble In Echo.