Born in Somerset in 1978, Holly Fawcett attended Chetham’s school of Music in Manchester before reading Music at Clare College, Cambridge University and in 2000 she graduated with First Class Honours. She continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the Leila Bull Oboe Prize, and then with Maurice Bourgue at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, where in June 2005 she was awarded a diplôme de soliste with distinction.

In the same year, Holly won First Prize at the Barbirolli International Oboe Competition and as part of her prize, gave her debut recital at the Wigmore Hall, London in November 2006.

Holly is second oboe, doubling cor anglais, in the Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House. She is a regular guest player with the Mahler Chamber and the Budapest Festival Orchestras, and has also played with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, including a recent trial.