Having gained a DfE Scholarship to Wells Cathedral School in 2011, Ollie studied trumpet, piano and composition and was awarded the Nathan Hewitt Trumpet Prize for “The most outstanding trumpet player”. In 2013, he gained a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to study both trumpet and piano, subsequently performing at the NatWest OSCA Awards for the England Cricket Team at Lords Cricket Ground, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in the premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ last work, The Hogboon, and more recently for HRH The Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward and HRH The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, Princess Alexandra.

In chamber music, Ollie also performs and manages the brass ensemble Elysium Brass, with whom performances have included at the Barbican Sound Unbound Festival, multiple returns to Leicester International Music Festival, Radlett, Luton, Sowerby, Kendall and Canterbury Music Clubs as well as at the Festival de Torroella de Montgri in Spain amongst others.

In teaching, Ollie has been a tutor of piano, trumpet and music theory since 2013 tutoring all ages and abilities in the UK and across the world as far as Hong Kong and the USA. He is the Head of Brass and piano tutor at Thames Christian College, London and has given masterclasses at Newbury Festival, Stogumber Festival for the Geoff Ashcroft Community, Taunton School for Boys and Wells Cathedral School.

Ollie graduated in 2017 with First Class Honours in Trumpet and Piano from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is the Founder and Manager of Primo Tuition.