studied oboe with Leon Goosens and Celia Nicklin as a scholarship holder at Cambridge University and completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees with distinction. A further scholarship enabled her to study at the Royal Academy of Music. There she won the Leila Bull Oboe Prize and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. She then continued her musical training with Prof. Ingo Goritzki at the "Hochschule für Musik und Theater" in Hanover.

Rachel Frost has been invited to play as principal oboist and principal cor anglais with the most renowned orchestras and has played under the world's best conductors. Since 1992 she has been a member of the "Chamber Orchestra of Europe", an outstanding chamber music ensemble initiated by Claudio Abbado. She has played under the conductors Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bernhard Haitink, Claudio Abbado, Yannick Nezet-Seguin and has worked with the soloists Andras Schiff, Martha Argerich, Lisa Batiashvili and others.

As a member of the "Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe" she has produced numerous CDs. Together with Heinz Holliger, she has recorded the complete wind chamber music of Richard Strauss. Together with Douglas Boyd, she has recorded the complete trio sonatas by Jan Dismas Zelenka.

In 2012, she founded Trio Roseau, realizing her dream of performing small treasures of wind chamber music together with her husband, clarinettist Ulf-Guido Schäfer, and bassoonist Malte Refardt.

Since 2018, the ensemble has recorded 3 CDs with works by W.A. Mozart on the renowned MDG label (Musikproduktionen Dabringhaus und Grimm). The complete recording of the Mozart Divertimenti KV 439 is supplemented with harmony music for the operas La Clemenza di Tito, Cosi fan tutte and Don Giovanni. On the latest CD (Mozart Vol. 3), Rachel also plays Mozart arias arranged by Ulf-Guido Schäfer for oboe or cor anglais and string trio.

In spring 2023, Rachel recorded the work "Reminiszenzen" for cor anglais and string trio by Ulf-Guido Schäfer as part of a scholarship from "Neustart Kultur".

Rachel teaches cor anglais in Prof. Kai Frömbgen's oboe class at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Together with the Trio Roseau, she teaches chamber music in master classes at the "Villa Musica".

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“Ein besonders delikates Hörschmankerl ….eine klanglich delikate und abwechslungsreiche Serenade von mozartischer Leichtigkeit und Raffinesse…. alles ist äußerst liebevoll und mit Geschmack musiziert. Die drei Konzertarien von Mozart mit Streichertriobegleitung wirken durch die instrumentale Reduzierung noch kostbarer und intimer“ (klassik heute)

„Virtuosic in the fast parts, generously cantabile in the wide vocal arches: Rachel Frost on oboe and English horn does not miss Mozart’s singer friends at any moment.“ (Vinyl)

“The members of the Trio Roseau are excellent Mozartians, sprightly and sensitive. They seem to breathe together, shading their dynamics expertly. They are recorded in a believable space: I feel as if I were in an excellent seat in a real small concert hall.“ (Michael Ullman, Fanfare magazine)

“… eine Offenbarung, nicht nur für Spezialisten der Bläserkammermusik.“ (Gramola)
CD Trio Roseau Mozart Vol.2

… wird ebenso lebendig wie feinfühlig gespielt.“ (Pizzicato)

“It is extraordinary to think that you are listening to only three instruments at one time; so good are Ulf-Guido Schäfer’s arrangements, that it sounds like a much bigger ensemble. This is aided by the expert playing of the three musicians who blend their sounds to produce the unexpected.“ (Stuart Sillitoe, musicweb.com)
CD Trio Roseau Mozart Vol.1

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