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Elen Le Foll is a dedicated professional musician, linguist and educator.

Elen is bilingual (French-English), and having lived in both France and England for extended periods of time, has the dual nationality. She now lives in Cologne, Germany, where she is an active musician, recorder teacher, as well as an English and French teacher.

As a musician, Elen graduated from Trinity College of Music with a BMus (First Class Honours) having recorder as her first study and cornetto as her second. There, she won the conservatoire's most prestigious prize - the Isabelle Bond Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Solo Performance, and was also awarded the Silver Medal for early music studies and the Beryl Maggs prize for recorder excellence. She has performed in many venues small and large, such as St Martins-in-the-Fields, St John's Smith Square, Greenwich Old Royal Naval College Chapel and Lincoln Hall, as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician.

As a language teacher, Elen has been active for the last five years teaching in a wide variety of contexts from primary schools, to individual adult lessons, Business English classes and large mixed nationality classes. She trained and qualified as an English teacher in Cambridge and gained her CELTA (Certificate of English Teaching for Adults) with a pass B. Since she has worked for several language schools including English First and the Volkshochschule in Cologne.

Elen's interests are varied and include linguistics, Ottoman culture, modern Turkish and European languages, early music (from the Medieval era to the late Baroque period), contemporary classical and jazz music, and sports such as roller-skating and cycling.

Listen to Elen's diminutions on Willaert's madrigal Amor mi fa morire in the style of Sylvestro Ganassi:

Willaert / Ganassi / Le Foll (1533 / 2010) Amor mi fa morire

Elen Le Foll (recorder), Toby Carr (Lute)

Recorded live at St Alfege Church Greenwich, June 2010

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