Olivia Palmer-Baker is an Irish musician based in Berlin who specialises in contemporary, historical, and improvised music. In her work, she explores the physical, social, and temporal experience of making music and sees herself as a performer who explores the volatile, chaotic, and vulnerable extremes of her instrument—the bassoon.

Recent highlights include the conception, production, and tour of je mets mon scaphandre for bassoon, ambisonics, and sound-reactive light (2024–25, UK/DE), a masterclass on bassoon and electronics as part of the HKB Bern Double Reed Days (2026, CH), and an upcoming solo recital at Unerhörte Musik (2026, Berlin), as well as further solo performances including at Rondò (Divertimento Ensemble, Italy), the Aldeburgh Festival (UK), SONify Graz (Austria), Modulartx (Switzerland), Transparent Sound (Hungary), and in Spain, Ireland, and Germany. She also performs with numerous European ensembles for contemporary and historical music, including Ensemble Modern, Lautten Compagney, Ensemblekollektiv Berlin, Basel Sinfonietta, and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, and has performed as an improviser in many contexts.

She studied previously in London (Royal Academy of Music), Berlin (Universität der Künste), Frankfurt (International Ensemble Modern Academy), and is currently studying part time on the Music, Sound, Performance course at the Freie Universität Berlin.