Otto is a recorder player from London with a broad range of experience both in classical and popular music, with a passion for promoting the recorder as a fine instrument at all ability levels.

He graduated with an MMus in Advanced Instrumental Studies from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2024, studying recorder with Ian Wilson and baroque oboe with Gail Hennesey. He received his BA (Hons) Music from the University of Bristol where he focused on recorder performance, musicology with specialism in early music and African-American music, and studio composition, for which he received the university’s Studio Composition Prize upon graduation.
He performs widely as a soloist through UK and EU touring, including as recent support for acclaimed jazz musician Shabaka Hutchings. As a session player he has recorded for projects in the UK, Germany, USA and beyond, including notable recent soundtracks for BBC and ZDF. As musical director and live musician in he has toured Europe and North America including performances at SXSW, Canadian Music Week, Tallinn Music Week.

He is a member of the early music ensemble Londinium Consort, winners of the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ New Elizabethan Award 2024/25.