Soloists
Lynn Farleigh
Lynn Farleigh, a Bristolian, trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and began her career in rep at Salisbury. She has worked many times for the ESC, the RSC and the National Theatre, recently in the acclaimed production of “Three Days in the Country”. Shakespeare roles include Helena in All's Well That Ends Well, Viola , Hermione, Lady Anne, Titania, Portia and Lady Macbeth. Much television work includes Steptoe and Son, Pride and Prejudice, Finney, Out, Wycliffe (as Helen), Midsomer Murders, and more recently in Vera, Lightfields, Casualty, EastEnders and Silent Witness. Read more >>
Nancy Taylor
Nancy is our string leader. She studied violin at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Following two years playing in Portugal’s Orquestra do Norte, Nancy returned to the UK where she toured with Moscow City Ballet and the stage show Barnum. Her love of theatre led her to perform in Fiddler on the Roof, A Tale of Two Cities, and as solo violin for the West End production of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change! She then spent 12 years touring the UK with the Carl Rosa Opera Orchestra as leader. In more recent years, Nancy has enjoyed a busy and. varied freelance career, her recent highlights being Oliver! at Grange Park, Scrooge at The Curve Leicester, and playing with the band at Scarborough Spa during a summer season. Read more >>
Gerard Flotats
Gerard Flotats is a Catalan cellist born in 2001. He is the winner of the Royal Overseas League Strings Competition 2023, the Regency Award and the Duo Prize and Craxton Prize at the RAM. He is a Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist and has been invited to music festivals around Europe such as IMS Prussia Cove, Mendelssohn on Mull with the Doric Quartet, Schiermonnikoog, Santander Encuentro and the Hope Academy. Gerard has performed alongside renowned artists such as Brett Dean, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Guy Johnston, and Latica Honda-Rosenberg. Read more >>
Eleanor Corr
Eleanor is the winner of the Royal Overseas League Annual Music Competition 2020, leader of English Touring Opera and a Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist. She has recorded Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat for Linn Records and performed at Royal Albert Hall Elgar Room, St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Oslo Chamber Music Festival. Read more >>
Morag Boyle
Morag Boyle, contralto, studied Music at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and was subsequently a Cripplegate Scholar studying postgraduate Early Music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has been a member of the English National Opera Chorus since 1999, while continuing her freelance choral work with the BBC Singers, King’s Consort and London Handel Festival, and performing music for Royal National Theatre and West End productions. Read more >>
Indira Grier
Indira Grier has performed as a soloist and chamber musician across the UK and Europe, and has participated in masterclasses with David Geringas, Frans Helmerson, Thomas Ades and Steven Isserlis. Already the recipient of several international prizes, she completed a Masters degree at the Royal College of Music studying with Alexander Chaushian. Previously she was taught by Melissa Phelps and then by Troels Svane at the Musikhochschule Luebeck. Read more >>
Emma Halnan
Flautist Emma Halnan first came to prominence as the woodwind category winner of BBC Young Musician 2010. In the grand final, she broadcast Reinecke's flute concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales live on BBC television and radio. Since then, she has gone on to perform at many of the major UK venues including Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall and St John’s Smith Square, as well as being broadcast on BBC Radio 2’s "Friday Night is Music Night" as soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Read more >>
Alexandra Lomeiko
Alexandra Lomeiko was born in 1991. A graduate of the Royal College of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she is based in London where she has established herself as one of the most talented and versatile musicians her age, winning prizes in various competitions, being broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on numerous occasions and performing extensively as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician both in the UK and abroad. Read more >>
Emily Sun
Australian violinist Emily Sun made her concerto début with the East-West Philharmonic Orchestra aged 10, and has since been a regular soloist with the Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmanian, Queensland, Canberra Symphony Orchestras and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Internationally, she has performed with US orchestras Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra, Garland Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Arlington and Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra; China’s Shanghai Youth Orchestra, Romania’s Mihail Jora Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Moscovia Chamber Orchestra Russia. Read more >>
Michael Foyle
Praised for 'playing of compelling conviction' (The Daily Telegraph) and 'superlative, unwaveringly engaging performance' (Seen and Heard International), Michael Foyle won The 2016 Netherlands Violin Competition. His acclaimed performance of Szymanowksi's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra led to an immediate invitation to give his début recital in The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Read more >>
Manus Noble
After graduating with first class honours from the Royal College of Music, Manus Noble was awarded a scholarship to do his Masters at the Royal Academy of Music. Noble gave his debut performance at the Cadogan Hall, aged 19. He was given Performance Awards by the Musicians Benevolent Fund, Countess of Munster and Ian Flemming Trusts, and was accepted onto the Park Lane Group Young Artist’s Concert Series at the Purcell Room. He won first prize in the Ivor Mairants Guitar Competition in 2011. Read more >>
Maddy Aldis-Evans
Maddy Aldis-Evans was born in Leicester. She studied Oboe and composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire obtaining a Postgraduate Diploma in professional studies, BA(Hons) degree, ABSM(merit) in Composition and winning the BA Course prize. She was also awarded the college prize for Orchestral Composition, and the college Sinfonia, conducted by Andrew Mogrelia, premiered her “Four pieces for orchestra”. Maddy continued her studies at the Royal Northern College of music where she gained a post-graduate diploma in advanced performance and Composition studying Oboe with Jonathon Small (Principal Oboe RLPO) and composition with Dr. Anthony Gilbert. “Claudia” for chamber ensemble was performed at the college and Maddy was awarded the Rawsthorn Prize for composition. Read more >>
Joo Yeon Sir - Violin
Korean-born British violinist Joo Yeon Sir is winner of the prestigious The Arts Club Karl Jenkins Classical Music Award 2014 in association with Classic FM and The President’s Award presented by HRH The Prince of Wales. She has performed as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician at major venues across the UK including Wigmore Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. James’s Piccadilly, Fairfield Halls, Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery and St. James’s Palace in the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales. Read more >>
Yvonne-Marie Parsons
Yvonne's diverse musical career as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician has taken her around the globe. She plays with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, OSJ, City of London Sinfonia, English National Ballet, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, BBCNOW, RPCO, the Gabrieli Consort, and was principal cello with Longborough Festival Opera for 2 years. She enjoys endless wonderful chamber music including the Vale Piano Trio and Auriga Ensemble, London Concertante and Mezin Trio, and has performed cello concertos with orchestras across the world from the UK to Australia including with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow. Read more >>
Adelia Myslov
Adelia Myslov was born in 1989 in St Petersburg, Russia, soon moving to England with her family, where she attended the Yehudi Menuhin School and Purcell School of Music, studying violin with Natasha Boyarsky and Felix Andrievsky. She completed her Bachelor of Music at the Royal College of Music, and graduated with a Distinction in Masters of Performance from the RCM with Itzhak Rashkovsky (violin) and Adrian Butterfield (baroque violin). During her studies she received an Orpheus scholarship and was awarded an RCM Marjorie and Dorothy Whyte Memorial Fund upon graduating. She was sponsored throughout her school and college years by the London J & A Beares firm who lent her very fine violins on which to play; she now plays on an Italian violin by Lorenzo Storioni, kindly lent anonymously through Beare’s International Violin Society. Read more >>
Mandy Burvill
Mandy studied at Trinity College of Music with Keith Puddy and Hale Hambleton, and subsequently spent 10 years as 2nd and E flat clarinet in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. She is currently pursuing a varied freelance career, playing with orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, Hallé, Northern Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, Northern Ballet and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Read more >>
Adi Tal
Winner of the Muriel Taylor Cello Prize and the Making Music Award for Young Concert Artists, Adi Tal is emerging as one of the most dynamic young cellists of her generation. She made her solo debut at the age of twelve with Israel Chamber Orchestra, and has since performed with numerous ensembles and orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, Haifa Symphony, and Herzliya Chamber Orchestra, collaborating with conductors Thomas Sanderling, Dan Ettinger, Aldo Ceccato and James Judd. Read more >>
Daniel Broncano
Daniel was born in Madrid in 1986 and studied there with Justo Sanz and in Paris with Nicolas Baldeyrou. He has appeared with Chroma Ensemble, Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, sound collective and the Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra. He has been a member of the Madrid Youth Orchestra, the Spanish National Youth Orchestra and the Young Musicians' Symphony Orchestra. Read more >>
Tanya Sweiry
American-British violinist Tanya Sweiry studied with a full scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music with Hu Kun and Remus Azoitei. In 2009 she graduated with a First Class Honours, also being awarded the ‘John Baker Development Award’ by Friends of the Royal Academy of Music. Tanya has performed at festivals and recital series including the Little Venice Music Festival, Winchester Cathedral Lunchtime Recital Series, St John’s Smith Square, Queen’s College Oxford Recital Series and Krakow Autumn Festival, Poland. As a soloist, she has performed with the North London Symphony Orchestra and Southbank Sinfonia. Read more >>
Mae Heydorn
Mae Heydorn, a Swedish-German mezzo-soprano, is a post-graduate scholarship student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama studying with Susan Waters and Rudolf Piernay. Read more >>
Eloisa-Fleur Thom
Eloisa-Fleur Thom currently studies with Maurice Hasson at the Royal Academy of Music. She was awarded an ABRSM scholarship for the duration of her undergraduate course. At RAM, Eloisa-Fleur has been awarded the John Waterhouse Prize 2007, the Amadeus Scholarship 2008 and the Ayling Academic Prize 2009. Read more >>
Sue and Phoebe Butler
Sue was a student at Trinity College of Music where she studied viol, recorder and early music. She has performed with distinguished viol players like Alison Crum. Sue now teaches and advises in Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes and has recently started some innovative work on teaching viol to children in schools. A prodigiously gifted recorder player, Sue performs solo recitals and plays with baroque and renaissance groups in the area. Read more >>
Hayley Lambert
Hayley Lambert studied at Colchester Institute with Angela Fussell and at the Royal College of Music with Kyle Horch. Since graduating in 2004 Hayley has become a busy freelance saxophonist performing with orchestras across the UK including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Read more >>
Glyn Williams
Glyn Williams studied the bassoon at the Royal Academy of Music in London. His teachers over the years have included Gwydion Brooke, Ronald Waller and Michael Chapman. Glyn has freelanced in England with various orchestras including the London Symphony, BBC Symphony and the Philharmonia. He has been involved with many chamber ensembles including the Harlequin wind quintet, Volante trio and the Poulenc trio. Read more >>