Our wind, brass, percussion, Keyboard & voice team
Harpist Deian studied at Wells Cathedral School and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he was awarded scholarships by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, Arts Council of Wales, Craxton Memorial Fund, Leverhulme Trust, S4C, GSMD Orchestral & Ensemble Award 2002, and the Open Instrumental Blue Ribbon at the 2002 National Eisteddfod of Wales.
As a soloist and chamber musician he has performed all over the UK, Europe and North America, made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2002 & recorded Concerto for Clarinet, Harp and Orchestra by Dolmetsch along with Clarinettist Peter Cigleris and BBC National Orchestra of Wales in 2020.
He regularly performs with the countries leading orchestras including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, The Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, CBSO and Welsh National Opera, and held the harp chair in the West End productions of South Pacific and 42nd Street.
Deian features regularly on commercial and tv/film soundtracks as well as writing and recording his own music for several library companies. He was a member of Live Music Now! and was invited by HRH King Charles III to perform for the royal family for HRH Queen Elizabeth II 80th Birthday at Kew Palace.
Martin (Harpsichord) has a freelance career in historical performance of music of the 17th and 18th centuries with period instrument groups and modern orchestras across the UK. As a keyboardist Martin specialises in continuo playing on harpsichord, organ and fortepiano but has often appeared as concerto soloist, performing works by Handel, Bach, Haydn and Graun. As a director, he has performed music from Gabrieli to Britten, including staged operas by Handel, Mozart and Purcell. Until 2007, he was Director of Music at the University of Leicester where he directed the University’s orchestras and choirs & he is currently Head of Historical Performance and the Instrument Curator at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where he lectures on early music, teaches harpsichord, continuo and chamber music, and directs projects and concerts. As a musicologist he has published a number of critical editions of early music, including 18th century English cello music he discovered in 2013. He has contributed to the prestigious Grove Music dictionary and has recently published a book on music-making in late eighteenth-century England.
Peter (Clarinet) studied at Cambridge University & at the Royal Academy of Music, is Co-Principal Clarinet at English National Opera & professor of clarinet at the Royal College of Music, London. He regularly performs as guest Principal Clarinet with most of the leading symphony, chamber, ballet and opera orchestras in the UK such as the Royal Opera House, Philharmonia & BBC Orchestras, with concerts, broadcasts and recordings both at home and abroad.
A busy chamber musician, Peter performs with a number of different ensembles & has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and performed in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, BBC Proms as well as at International Festivals.
He also records as a session musician for a variety of TV shows, including ‘The Crown’, films and adverts, as well as playing in the West End.
He has premiered many new works and has an affinity for contemporary music. Some commissions include works by Nicola LeFanu and Peter Wiegold, including bass clarinet concerto ‘New York’ which premiered in the Park Lane Group series in the Purcell Room. He collaborated with Mira Calix, working on inter-disciplinary improvised music with electronics to silent movies by Hitchcock in the Royal Festival Hall and ‘Dead Wedding’ puppet show in the Barbican. As a visiting teacher, Peter has coached chamber music, given classes and masterclasses at RAM, GSMD and RWCMD. He also recorded the official demonstration tracks for the current ABRSM clarinet syllabus.
Flautist Eliza studied at the Royal Academy of Music and plays with orchestras including BBC Concert, The Royal Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, London Sinfonietta and Britten Sinfonia including touring India with sarod guru Amjad Ali Khan.
Eliza played Indian bansuri flutes onstage at The Royal Opera House and premiered 'The Informer’ at London's Film Festival at BFI. She has also been principal flute on recordings for Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams and Peter Gabriel, and on the soundtracks of The Lord Of The Rings, Kung Fu Panda, The Great Gatsby & Sherlock Holmes. She records on flutes, ethnic flutes and whistles for screen – heard on Hidden Kingdoms, The Musketeers, Robin Hood and Prometheus.
Eliza worked with an NGO in Cameroon on Aids Awareness through music and drama and has a deep love for crossing boundaries and bringing together musicians and music from all over the world.
Guylaine (bassoon) studied at the Royal Academy of Music where she won several prestigious awards including a Philharmonia MMSF Woodwind Fellowship, a Silver Medal from the Worshipful Company of Musician’s and both the Vivian Dunn prize for orchestral playing and a Regency Award. She regularly performs with orchestras around the country, including playing Guest Principal Bassoon with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, English National Opera, the Philharmonia and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
She has played and worked with several international chamber music ensembles such Wigmore Soloists, London Winds and Ensemble 360, and is a member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, which made their BBC Proms debut in 2023. In direct contrast to her classical chamber music work, Guylaine has also performed with the rock band ‘The Good, the Bad and the Queen’ on ‘Later…with Jools Holland’.
Stephen, Principal Horn of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, is a horn soloist & chamber musician of worldwide renown. He studied at the RNCM with Ifor James & later, privately, with Julian Baker in London & has a discography of over 100 chamber works & concertos, including world premiere recordings of both contemporary & neglected works by British composers alongside the great masterpieces for horn. As a member of Endymion, Capricorn, The Fibonacci Sequence & the New London Chamber Ensemble he has given countless performances over the years. Stephen is also principal horn with City of London Sinfonia with whom he has recorded the Mozart Horn Concertos, the Concertino by Weber & the Double Horn Concerti by Vivaldi. During lockdown, accompanied by Anthony Halstead, he recorded unpublished & forgotten works they found in the library of Dennis Brain. He has played as soloist with the ASMF & CLS, Orchestra of St Johns, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe & many others. Works written for him include concertos by Gary Carpenter & Matthew Taylor, premiered with the BBC Philharmonic & ASMF respectively. Stephen is Professor of Horn at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, & a faculty member of the Yellow Barn International Summer Music School & Festival in Vermont, USA.
Photograph courtesy of Fiona Hansen
Kuljit is a British composer, record producer and musician whose main instrument is the tabla. He is best known as one of the record producers who pioneered the British Bhangra sound and for his many collaborations with musicians from different genres and continents. One of the most inspiring musicians in the British Asian music scene, Kuljit has composed and produced over 2000 songs and is responsible for the rise to fame of numerous Bhangra and Bollywood stars.
Kuljit has worked, both independently and collaboratively, on film scores for over ten years, including the soundtrack for the award winning Bhaji on the Beach, A Winter of Love, Bend it Like Beckham and appearances on The Guru, The Four Feathers and more recently Alexander, Brick Lane and Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
Michael (Piano) studied at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He was awarded the Joseph Weingarten Memorial Trust scholarship to continue his studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. He has recently been honoured as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
Michael has performed at major venues throughout the UK, as well as across Europe and further afield in Australia, New Zealand and the Solomon Islands. He is Artistic Director of Sonoro. As a composer, his choral works have been performed and broadcast internationally, and are published by the Royal School of Church Music, Novello and Oxford University Press.
Emily (Trumpet) studied at the Royal Academy of Music supported by the Ian Fleming Award from Help Musicians UK, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and Craxton Memorial Trust.
Emily has performed as principal trumpet with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, London Mozart Players.
She also regularly works with orchestras including Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, English National Opera and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
Emily has worked on educational outreach projects with the Philharmonia Orchestra including the 'Virtual Orchestra' and 'Orchestra Unwrapped'. In addition, Emily has taken part in several chamber music outreach projects with London Metropolitan Brass, and Onyx Brass.
Jonathan Fa'afetai Lemalu (Voice), a New Zealand born Samoan, graduated from the London Royal Schools Opera Course at the Royal College of Music and was awarded the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal. He is a joint winner of the 2002 Kathleen Ferrier award and the recipient of the 2002 Royal Philharmonic Society’s Award for Young Artist of the Year. He has performed at the Munich, Edinburgh, Ravinia and Tanglewood Festivals and at the BBC Proms. Jonathan is in great demand from the major opera houses, orchestras and recital venues of the world. He released a debut recital disc on EMI with Roger Vignoles to great critical acclaim and which won a Gramophone Debut Disc of the Year award. Other recordings include an operatic arias disc with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and a disc of English and American songs with Malcolm Martineau.
Jonathan is a professor of voice at Guildhall School of Music and Drama & the Royal College of Music.
Jonathan has been awarded the FRCM for Services to Music & the ONZM for Services to Opera, and is a Patron of New Zealand Opera.
Bassoonist Laura grew up in Cornwall & was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. Whilst in New York she worked as an animateur for the New York Philharmonic and the Weill Institute at Carnegie Hall and held an outreach performance residency at the 92nd St Y with the Aeros Quintet. Since moving back to the UK Laura has worked with various orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Welsh National Opera, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, English National Opera, Hallé Orchestra and been active in the outreach departments of the Philharmonia and London Philharmonic Orchestras. In 2015 she was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and holds teaching positions at Dulwich College and Coloma Convent School in London.
Trombone player Rob studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. Whilst a student he played with the European Union Youth Orchestra and Verbier Festival Orchestra before moving to Osaka to take up a position with the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra. Rob then took a position with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra before coming back to the UK to trial and guest with many of the top UK orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra. After taking a part time position in the Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria for three years he then settled in Edinburgh and regularly plays with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Rob is also a successful music teacher and currently teaches at two of Edinburgh’s top private schools. He has also taught at many state and private schools across London teaching individual brass lessons, leading projects for Yamaha and Classic FM and taking outreach group activities for disadvantaged children.
As a soloist and chamber musician he has performed all over the UK, Europe and North America, made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2002 & recorded Concerto for Clarinet, Harp and Orchestra by Dolmetsch along with Clarinettist Peter Cigleris and BBC National Orchestra of Wales in 2020.
He regularly performs with the countries leading orchestras including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, The Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, CBSO and Welsh National Opera, and held the harp chair in the West End productions of South Pacific and 42nd Street.
Deian features regularly on commercial and tv/film soundtracks as well as writing and recording his own music for several library companies. He was a member of Live Music Now! and was invited by HRH King Charles III to perform for the royal family for HRH Queen Elizabeth II 80th Birthday at Kew Palace.
Martin (Harpsichord) has a freelance career in historical performance of music of the 17th and 18th centuries with period instrument groups and modern orchestras across the UK. As a keyboardist Martin specialises in continuo playing on harpsichord, organ and fortepiano but has often appeared as concerto soloist, performing works by Handel, Bach, Haydn and Graun. As a director, he has performed music from Gabrieli to Britten, including staged operas by Handel, Mozart and Purcell. Until 2007, he was Director of Music at the University of Leicester where he directed the University’s orchestras and choirs & he is currently Head of Historical Performance and the Instrument Curator at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where he lectures on early music, teaches harpsichord, continuo and chamber music, and directs projects and concerts. As a musicologist he has published a number of critical editions of early music, including 18th century English cello music he discovered in 2013. He has contributed to the prestigious Grove Music dictionary and has recently published a book on music-making in late eighteenth-century England.
Peter (Clarinet) studied at Cambridge University & at the Royal Academy of Music, is Co-Principal Clarinet at English National Opera & professor of clarinet at the Royal College of Music, London. He regularly performs as guest Principal Clarinet with most of the leading symphony, chamber, ballet and opera orchestras in the UK such as the Royal Opera House, Philharmonia & BBC Orchestras, with concerts, broadcasts and recordings both at home and abroad.
A busy chamber musician, Peter performs with a number of different ensembles & has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and performed in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, BBC Proms as well as at International Festivals.
He also records as a session musician for a variety of TV shows, including ‘The Crown’, films and adverts, as well as playing in the West End.
He has premiered many new works and has an affinity for contemporary music. Some commissions include works by Nicola LeFanu and Peter Wiegold, including bass clarinet concerto ‘New York’ which premiered in the Park Lane Group series in the Purcell Room. He collaborated with Mira Calix, working on inter-disciplinary improvised music with electronics to silent movies by Hitchcock in the Royal Festival Hall and ‘Dead Wedding’ puppet show in the Barbican. As a visiting teacher, Peter has coached chamber music, given classes and masterclasses at RAM, GSMD and RWCMD. He also recorded the official demonstration tracks for the current ABRSM clarinet syllabus.
Flautist Eliza studied at the Royal Academy of Music and plays with orchestras including BBC Concert, The Royal Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, London Sinfonietta and Britten Sinfonia including touring India with sarod guru Amjad Ali Khan.
Eliza played Indian bansuri flutes onstage at The Royal Opera House and premiered 'The Informer’ at London's Film Festival at BFI. She has also been principal flute on recordings for Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams and Peter Gabriel, and on the soundtracks of The Lord Of The Rings, Kung Fu Panda, The Great Gatsby & Sherlock Holmes. She records on flutes, ethnic flutes and whistles for screen – heard on Hidden Kingdoms, The Musketeers, Robin Hood and Prometheus.
Eliza worked with an NGO in Cameroon on Aids Awareness through music and drama and has a deep love for crossing boundaries and bringing together musicians and music from all over the world.
Guylaine (bassoon) studied at the Royal Academy of Music where she won several prestigious awards including a Philharmonia MMSF Woodwind Fellowship, a Silver Medal from the Worshipful Company of Musician’s and both the Vivian Dunn prize for orchestral playing and a Regency Award. She regularly performs with orchestras around the country, including playing Guest Principal Bassoon with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, English National Opera, the Philharmonia and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
She has played and worked with several international chamber music ensembles such Wigmore Soloists, London Winds and Ensemble 360, and is a member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, which made their BBC Proms debut in 2023. In direct contrast to her classical chamber music work, Guylaine has also performed with the rock band ‘The Good, the Bad and the Queen’ on ‘Later…with Jools Holland’.
Stephen, Principal Horn of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, is a horn soloist & chamber musician of worldwide renown. He studied at the RNCM with Ifor James & later, privately, with Julian Baker in London & has a discography of over 100 chamber works & concertos, including world premiere recordings of both contemporary & neglected works by British composers alongside the great masterpieces for horn. As a member of Endymion, Capricorn, The Fibonacci Sequence & the New London Chamber Ensemble he has given countless performances over the years. Stephen is also principal horn with City of London Sinfonia with whom he has recorded the Mozart Horn Concertos, the Concertino by Weber & the Double Horn Concerti by Vivaldi. During lockdown, accompanied by Anthony Halstead, he recorded unpublished & forgotten works they found in the library of Dennis Brain. He has played as soloist with the ASMF & CLS, Orchestra of St Johns, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe & many others. Works written for him include concertos by Gary Carpenter & Matthew Taylor, premiered with the BBC Philharmonic & ASMF respectively. Stephen is Professor of Horn at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, & a faculty member of the Yellow Barn International Summer Music School & Festival in Vermont, USA.
Photograph courtesy of Fiona Hansen
Kuljit is a British composer, record producer and musician whose main instrument is the tabla. He is best known as one of the record producers who pioneered the British Bhangra sound and for his many collaborations with musicians from different genres and continents. One of the most inspiring musicians in the British Asian music scene, Kuljit has composed and produced over 2000 songs and is responsible for the rise to fame of numerous Bhangra and Bollywood stars.
Kuljit has worked, both independently and collaboratively, on film scores for over ten years, including the soundtrack for the award winning Bhaji on the Beach, A Winter of Love, Bend it Like Beckham and appearances on The Guru, The Four Feathers and more recently Alexander, Brick Lane and Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
Michael (Piano) studied at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He was awarded the Joseph Weingarten Memorial Trust scholarship to continue his studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. He has recently been honoured as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
Michael has performed at major venues throughout the UK, as well as across Europe and further afield in Australia, New Zealand and the Solomon Islands. He is Artistic Director of Sonoro. As a composer, his choral works have been performed and broadcast internationally, and are published by the Royal School of Church Music, Novello and Oxford University Press.
Emily (Trumpet) studied at the Royal Academy of Music supported by the Ian Fleming Award from Help Musicians UK, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and Craxton Memorial Trust.
Emily has performed as principal trumpet with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, London Mozart Players.
She also regularly works with orchestras including Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, English National Opera and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
Emily has worked on educational outreach projects with the Philharmonia Orchestra including the 'Virtual Orchestra' and 'Orchestra Unwrapped'. In addition, Emily has taken part in several chamber music outreach projects with London Metropolitan Brass, and Onyx Brass.
Jonathan Fa'afetai Lemalu (Voice), a New Zealand born Samoan, graduated from the London Royal Schools Opera Course at the Royal College of Music and was awarded the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal. He is a joint winner of the 2002 Kathleen Ferrier award and the recipient of the 2002 Royal Philharmonic Society’s Award for Young Artist of the Year. He has performed at the Munich, Edinburgh, Ravinia and Tanglewood Festivals and at the BBC Proms. Jonathan is in great demand from the major opera houses, orchestras and recital venues of the world. He released a debut recital disc on EMI with Roger Vignoles to great critical acclaim and which won a Gramophone Debut Disc of the Year award. Other recordings include an operatic arias disc with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and a disc of English and American songs with Malcolm Martineau.
Jonathan is a professor of voice at Guildhall School of Music and Drama & the Royal College of Music.
Jonathan has been awarded the FRCM for Services to Music & the ONZM for Services to Opera, and is a Patron of New Zealand Opera.
Bassoonist Laura grew up in Cornwall & was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. Whilst in New York she worked as an animateur for the New York Philharmonic and the Weill Institute at Carnegie Hall and held an outreach performance residency at the 92nd St Y with the Aeros Quintet. Since moving back to the UK Laura has worked with various orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Welsh National Opera, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, English National Opera, Hallé Orchestra and been active in the outreach departments of the Philharmonia and London Philharmonic Orchestras. In 2015 she was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and holds teaching positions at Dulwich College and Coloma Convent School in London.
Trombone player Rob studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. Whilst a student he played with the European Union Youth Orchestra and Verbier Festival Orchestra before moving to Osaka to take up a position with the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra. Rob then took a position with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra before coming back to the UK to trial and guest with many of the top UK orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra. After taking a part time position in the Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria for three years he then settled in Edinburgh and regularly plays with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Rob is also a successful music teacher and currently teaches at two of Edinburgh’s top private schools. He has also taught at many state and private schools across London teaching individual brass lessons, leading projects for Yamaha and Classic FM and taking outreach group activities for disadvantaged children.
