Recorder and saxophone player.

Elen Le Foll was born in Brittany, France, and moved to Devon with her family aged 10. A year later she began learning the saxophone which sparkled her interest in classical music as well as jazz and celtic music. In Devon, she lead the sax section of two big bands and played in a number of smaller jazz combos. Having been searching for a more appropriate medium than the saxophone to explore baroque music, she started teaching herself the recorder aged 14. She subsequently attended Dartington International Summer School with a bursary where she met Emma Murphy who became her teacher.

Elen made her concerto début performing Vivaldi's C minor recorder concerto with South West Camerata in 2005. Since, she has played in masterclasses with Dan Laurin, Piers Adams and Annabel Knight. She is currently studying on the Bachelor of Music (Hons) degree course at Trinity College of Music where she has a busy schedule combining studies in early music and classical saxophone performance. She was awarded an entrance scholarship to study recorder with Philip Thorby and saxophone with Melanie Henry.

She is an active chamber musician playing with the TCM early music ensembles, in the improvisation-based band Anon V, and in a piano and saxophone duet with Haruka Shibuya, in addition to performing new compositions by college students. She is also keen to promote the recorder as a genuine instrument and has devised a recital on the theme of recorders and birds which she successfully toured around primary schools in Devon in June 2007.

Her scientific family background has led her to work on the acoustical properties of fork-fingerings on recorders as part of a physics project. Having been brought up in a bilingual environment and speaking a further three languages, Elen has a passion for languages which she shares with her language students, who range from adults to primary school children. In 2005, she was awarded a fellowship from the British Council to complete a research project on music education at a Gymnasium in Germany.

She hopes to further her musical and linguistic studies by moving to Köln (Cologne) next autumn where she will study recorder and early music at the Hochuschule für Musik and Spanish and linguistics at the University.

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I don't have as much time as I would like to compose and most of the pieces on this website are a few years old but I am in the process of (very slowly) writing some more. Some of my compositions have been performed in places as varied as Canada, Vienna and Australia. The reasons why some of my pieces are here is to get some comments so I'd be glad to hear any feedback on my scores (positive just like negative!). It'd be nice to hear from those of you who print my music as some of my scores now have over a 1000 prints and I've had very few comments...

Thanks a lot and enjoy the music!

P.S: Recently I have written a few graphic or partially graphic scores which can't be published on this site because there are not on Sibelius. If interested, please email.

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