Owen Watkins has performed on baroque oboe, recorder and early clarinet with many period instrument ensembles in the United States including Boston Baroque, Boston Camerata, Handel and Haydn Society, Washington Bach Consort, Arcadia Players, Ars Lyrica Houston, Opera Lafayette and the Four Nations ensemble. A graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium, Owen also studied at Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam and Boston University where he graduated with a master’s degree in baroque oboe. In conjunction with a performing career, Owen has worked as an instrument maker with Von Huene Workshop for eight years, making recorders, and collaborating with Joel Robinson in New York City on historical clarinet and basset horn. During 2014 and 2015 he was woodturner at Morgan Recorders in Daylesford Victoria, Australia, before working for five years as an instrument technician at Sax and Woodwind in Sydney. Owen currently runs his own workshop in Dover, NH where he repairs antique and modern woodwinds and makes baroque oboes based on an original instrument by I W Kenigsperger in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.