​​Born in 1983 in Rio de Janeiro, 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.​

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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, the duo Inês d'Avena & Claudio Ribeiro and La Cicala, of which she is the artistic director. She has won international early-music prizes, both as a soloist and with her ensembles (Premio Ruspoli 2010, Premio Bonporti 2011 and Van Wassenaer Competition 2016). Inês has recorded for Ramée/Outhere, Passacaille, Challenge Classics, ORF Edition Alte Musik, Channel Classics, and Sony Classical, winning prestigious awards such as a Diapason d'Or.​

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Inês is part of the teaching staff at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague since 2012, and was appointed Recorder Professor in 2025. She is regularly invited to teach and lecture at other universities and conservatoires, such as the Conservatoire royal in Brussels, Royal College of Music in London, Haute École de Musique in Geneva, Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, among others. 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.

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