is principal bassoon of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also worked with orchestras across Europe including the LSO, Budapest Festival Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Bayerisches Staatsorchester. She very much enjoys chamber music and has also premiered various works written for her by her brother, Kim, in venues in Germany, UK and Sweden. Her inaugural concert in Liverpool was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 with what the presenter described as a ‘boozy bassoon’ solo in Elgar’s Falstaff. She is particularly proud of this because she is tee-total. When not destroying bassoon reeds, she can be found cycling across Europe, celebrating veganism, and getting up to mischief with her little nephew.

is a professional horn player with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and for many years he was principal horn in the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a professor at the Royal College of Music. He is also a leading chamber musician and was a member of the Melos Ensemble in its second phase.

was born in Switzerland but has lived in London for most of her life. She was co-founder and General Manager of the English Chamber Orchestra until 1975, when she became a student again, taking up New World archaeology at the University of London. Since then she has combined her archeological and musical interests, lecturing on the prehistory of Mexico and also organising concerts in the UK and Switzerland for young talented musicians.
Ursula married the eminent trumpet player Philip Jones in 1956 and managed the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble during its last ten years. She is also a trustee of the Lucerne Festival, Streetwise Opera and the National Youth Wind Orchestra.

enjoys a wide-ranging career as a clarinettist. From 1999 to 2003 he was principal clarinet of the London Symphony Orchestra and was also chairman of the orchestra during his last year there. In September 2004 he was appointed section leader clarinet of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, a position he held until January 2006, when he left to focus on his freelance career. He plays on original instruments with the English Baroque Soloists, the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Timothy is professor of clarinet at both the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. In 2016 Timothy was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Music.
Since 2009 he has been the clarinet coach of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and in 2019 filled the role of rehearsal conductor with them for the first time..

is the Vice Principal of Morley College London which he joined after a career in various administrative and management roles in higher education institutions within London followed by ten years as Director of Finance and Administration at the Purcell School, one of the UK's most prestigious specialist music schools. Nick is a trustee of a number of other charities which support music making: Sound Connections, NonClassical (for both which he acts as treasurer) and the Kensington Symphony Orchestra where he is also principal bassoon.