Recorder player Inês d'Avena is known for her refined virtuosity and unique timbre, and blends these qualities as a performer with her engaging work as a researcher and teacher. Praised for performing "as if the recorder were her mother tongue", she specializes in the research and performance of Italian Baroque Music, and has also been passionately working on the revival of forgotten Italian Baroque recorders, commissioning copies and premiering the instruments in concerts and recordings worldwide.

Inês performs regularly as a soloist and in chamber and orchestral formations throughout Europe, Asia, and Latin America, with ensembles such as the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, New Collegium and La Cicala, of which she is the artistic director. She has won international prizes in early music (Premio Ruspoli 2010, Premio Bonporti 2011 and Van Wassenaer Competition 2016), both as a soloist and with her ensembles. Inês has recorded for Ramée/Outhere, Passacaille, Challenge Classics, ORF Edition Alte Musik, Channel Classics, and Sony Classical, winning prestigious awards such as Diapason d'Or.

Inês holds a PhD in Music from Leiden University and Bachelor's, Master's and teaching diplomas from the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. She has had scholarly articles, essays and reviews published at a variety of specialized journals. She was a post-doctoral resident academic researcher at the Cini Foundation/Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi in 2016, and artist-in-residence at the Emily Harvey Foundation, in 2018 and 2020. Inês is a Teacher and Research Supervisor at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague since 2012, and is regularly invited to teach and lecture at the Conservatoire Royal in Brussels, the Royal College of Music in London, and the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, among others.