Molly Marsh read Music at Girton College, University of Cambridge, before gaining a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in 1999, where she studied Baroque oboe with Sophia McKenna. After graduating with distinction in 2001 she moved to the Netherlands, continuing her studies of Baroque and Classical oboe with Alfredo Bernardini at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

Molly now lives in Italy, where she is principal oboist with the Accademia Bizantina. She is also a regular member of the English Baroque Soloists and the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla and has played with many more of Europe’s top period instrument ensembles, such as the Academy of Ancient Music, Ensemble Zefiro, Concerto Koln, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Les Talens Lyriques, Concerto Copenhagen and Europa Galante. She has taught on summer music courses in Spain and Italy and has given masterclasses at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was elected as an Associate (ARAM) in 2011.

Recent solo performances include Bach’s Concerto for oboe and violin with Stefano Montanari and the Accademia Bizantina, and concerti by Albinoni and Vivaldi with Enrico Onofri and the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla.