Since graduating from London’s Royal Academy of Music in 1998 Richard has appeared as guest principal tuba with many of the UK’s finest Orchestra’s including the BBC Concert & Scottish Symphony Orchestras, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra. Off the stage (or rather under it!), Richard has also appeared in the orchestra pit with both the English National Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet Orchestras as well as off stage for English National Opera.

Richard’s theatre credits include Chicago (Adelphi Theatre, London), Tales from the Vienna Woods, London Assurance, Captain of Köpenick (National Theatre) and The Golden Ass (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre).  In the studio, he has recorded for film and television, plus a wide range of other music as diverse as computer game soundtracks for Atari through to operas for Chandos with Sir Charles Mackerras and the Philharmonia.

A brass teacher for over 20 years he has taught all levels from beginner through to Conservatoire level and is currently head of brass at Westminster School with whom their first brass CD In Sono Tubae was recorded last year.

Away from the tuba Richard manages to combine his love of travel with that of the underwater world as a fully qualified Master Scuba Diver. He is also a keen cyclist and runner.

Dom is a classical saxophonist who enjoys a multi-dimensional career.

As an orchestral musician, Dom has toured, recorded and performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Birmingham Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Oxford Philharmonic and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales,  including live broadcast for BBC Radio 3 and perfoming at the ‘Last Night of the Proms’.

In 2019 Dom’s Debut Solo Album ‘Tableaux de Provence’ was released with the Resonus Classics record label, featuring works written or inspired by women.

In 2020 he will be performing across the UK including performing two concertos in St John’s Smith Square, London.

Between 2010-2018 Dom was the Alto Saxophonist in the award winning Forseti Saxophone quartet based in Cologne, performing in a number of Europe’s finest chamber music festivals and venues.

Dom is a passionate music educator having been the Saxophone Tutor for the National Youth Wind Ensemble, Deputy Saxophone Teacher at the Birmingham Conservatoire of Music as well as giving workshops across the UK including at Chetham’s School of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance.  He has been the Saxophone Tutor at Birmingham Conservatoire Junior Department and in 2015 founded the Saxophone Programme on the Ingenium Academy International Summer School. He is currently the Lead Woodwind Tutor for the National Youth Concert Band.

Dom studied at Chetham’s School of Music, Royal College of Music – London, Hochschule für Musik, Cologne and Conservatoire de Musique – Lyon.

In 2017 Dom became the 1^st Chair of the Hertfordshire Festival of Music.

Angela’s distinguished career was launched with a highly acclaimed Wigmore Hall recital and shortly afterwards her concerto debut at the Royal Festival playing the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. Following these successes, her busy concert schedule took her to North and South America, Japan, Bermuda, India and Canada as well as most European countries. She was for thirty years Principal Clarinet with the London Mozart Players and appeared with them as concerto soloist as well as being a founder member of their distinguished chamber ensemble.

In addition to a flourishing career as a concerto soloist, her membership of the De Saram Clarinet/ Cello/ Piano trio, Albion Ensemble, Musicians of the Royal Exchange, London Winds and the Academy of St Martins has been a major part of her life, together with performing clarinet quintets with eminent string quartets at home and abroad and giving duo recitals with her husband, David Pettit. Angela has many broadcasts to her name, together with CD’s on several labels, including ASV, Chandos, Hyperion and EMI.

She recently retired from thirty-five happy years as Senior Clarinet Professor at the Royal Academy of Music who had awarded her the distinction of Hon. RAM. Masterclasses and International competitions are still very much part of her life. She is not only a Buffet Artist but also an Honorary Fellow of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

In a career full of variety and diversity, Scottish born bassoonist, Sarah Burnett, is one of London’s most lyrical, successful and highly regarded wind players.  In her early years, she won places, awards and scholarships allowing her to study at Chetham’s School of Music, Cambridge University, the Royal Academy of Music and later to study with Klaus Thunemann in Hanover, Germany.  She was also Principal Bassoon in both the National Youth Orchestra of GB and the European Union Youth Orchestra.

Sarah is currently Principal Bassoon with the Britten Sinfonia and the London Mozart Players.   She is in demand as Guest Principal with most of the major UK Orchestras which have taken her to venues and festivals worldwide and allow her to work with conductors of great renown.  No stranger to the session world, Sarah can be heard on films such as Harry Potter and Les Miserables, TV programmes that include Frozen Planet and Dr Who as well as on albums and on tour with Peter Gabriel.  She is much in demand as a chamber musician being a member of the Haffner Wind and Marais Ensembles as well as the RPS award winning Britten Sinfonia Soloists and regularly performs in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, St George’s Bristol, the South Bank and the Barbican Centre.  She can frequently be heard on BBC Radio 3.

Now the coach of the bassoon section of the National Youth Orchestra of GB, Sarah has become one of the most respected teachers of the bassoon in the UK. Professor at the Royal College of Music and Consultant at Birmingham Conservatoire, Sarah also regularly gives masterclasses both at home and abroad.

Since her celebrated performance of Mozart’s Concerto in D major at the BBC Proms in 1988, Philippa Davies is known internationally as one of the finest flautists currently performing; a’ first-rate virtuoso’ with ‘exceptional eloquence’. She has given many concerto performances and recordings with orchestras in the UK, Europe and North and South America. She was flautist with the Fires of London, Albion Ensemble, Principal Flute with the London Mozart Players and now is a member of the Nash Ensemble and London Winds. She regularly plays guest principal flute with the main London orchestras. There are many recordings to her name; Mozart, Bach Flute Sonatas and William Alwyn’s flute music. This season she is performing in France, Holland, Italy and Germany giving recitals and masterclasses, and plans to record the flute concerto by Paul Reade. Philippa is a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music, London and runs her highly successful summer courses at Cubertou, France.

Liz is a professional freelance Double Bassist, having played in orchestras in the UK and abroad for the last 25 years. From LCO educational workshops to major symphonic works with the CBSO, Liz has always had a passion for playing and performing. She is also a pianist and flautist and occasionally one can find her behind a Bass Crumnhorn!

Since 2001, Liz has been a Professor of Double Bass at the Junior Department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Previous to this appointment, Liz was a Professor at the Junior Department at the Royal College of Music.

Liz’s drive and enthusiasm for the Bass and its specialist teaching has always been paramount in her work and whether its a 1/16^th size Bass or someone preparing for a career in the Music world, Liz is keen to make lessons and learning fun, whilst installing a high level of technique and musical styles.

Liz has been a consultant for the ABSRM syllabus for Double Bass twice and is always on the search for new and exciting repertoire for the instrument.  

Liz lives in Worthing with her two teenage daughters and when not working can be found in the garden, by the beach or up a mountain skiing!

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Recognised as one of the world’s leading viola players, Philip Dukes has enjoyed a career spanning over 30 years as an accomplished concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician.

He made his solo recital début in 1991 at the Southbank Centre, London, hailed by The Times as ‘Great Britain’s most outstanding viola player’ and by The Strad as ‘world class’. As a winner of the coveted European Rising Stars Award in 1997, he immediately made his recital débuts in Vienna, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Paris, and Amsterdam to critical acclaim and went on to perform as a soloist with all the major UK orchestras.

He has appeared as a soloist at the BBC Proms on numerous occasions, including one in which his performance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis in the Triple Concerto by Sir Michael Tippett was recorded live for the Deutsche Grammophon label. In addition, Philip has also recorded extensively for the Chandos, Naxos, Nimbus, BIS and Hyperion recording labels, as well as regularly recording and broadcasting for BBC Radio 3. He also gave the world première of the Concerto for Violin, Viola and Orchestra by Benjamin Britten.

Philip has enjoyed close musical associations with Yehudi Menuhin, György Kurtág, Daniel Hope, Tasmin Little, Julian Lloyd Weber, Michael Tree, Peter Donohoe, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, the Beaux Arts Trio, Debbie Wiseman and Sir Andrew Davis. In more diverse collaborations, Philip has worked with artists such as Eric Clapton, Sir Paul McCartney, Massive Attack, Madonna, Björk, Bryan Ferry, Nigel Kennedy, Robbie Williams, Oasis, and David Gilmour.

In demand worldwide as a director/conductor/soloist, he holds guest teaching positions at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Wells Cathedral School, and is also Artistic Director at Marlborough College.

Philip was unanimously elected a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2006, and in 2007 was appointed an Honorary Associate at the Royal Academy of Music. Philip Dukes is also Associate Artistic Director of the Savannah Music Festival in Georgia, USA, and is also a member of the prestigious Wigmore Soloists ensemble.

Highlights for 2023/24 include performances throughout the UK, USA, Germany, Turkey and Ireland, in concert with the Sacconi, Tippet and Escher String Quartets, Daniel Hope, Jennifer Pike, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Wigmore Soloists, Matt Ford and Debbie Wiseman. Following his acclaimed release of the Brahms Viola Sonatas with Peter Donohoe for the Chandos label in 2022, Philip will feature as a soloist on a further CD for the Quartz label with the National Symphony Orchestra. This is due for release in 2024 and includes music for viola and orchestra by Elgar and Herbert Howells.

JANE SEBBA’s musical beginnings were in the back seat of the car when she annoyed the family by singing incessantly. Aged four, she yelled for piano lessons; aged ten, she begged to stop (the lessons continued). As a bassoonist in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and as a Junior Exhibitioner at the Royal Academy of Music in London, she found herself increasingly drawn to music until it had her firmly in its clutches.

After studying the piano and bassoon at the Guildhall School of Music in London, she worked in primary schools in London, both as a class teacher and as a music specialist.  For twenty years she ran her own music school – The Music Funshop – attended each week by 150 children aged 3–9, making music with voices, percussion and recorders.  She taught herself the piano accordion and played on stage for many theatre productions; she is proud to have been the rabbit-with-the-accordion in the National Theatre production of The Wind in the Willows and can still do rabbitacting if required. For many years she worked as a commissioning editor in the music department at A&C Black publishers, and later as creative director at Charanga.com where she led the development of interactive instrumental and vocal resources for Charanga’s website. She regularly adjudicates at music festivals, trains teachers and enjoys taking music into the world of business. Jane is a prolific composer and writer of children’s music with more than fifty publications to her name, including the acclaimed series Abracadabra Piano, Piano Magic and Recorder Magic.  Her music for children has been published, recorded and performed on TV/radio and in concert halls/theatres world-wide.

As well as all this, she is a keen compère, musical arranger, lyricist, presenter, vegetarian, snorkeller, tropical-fish-keeper, musical-workshop leader and yoga devotee, and has recently started to play the ’cello in order to fulfil a 40-year desire to play string quartets.

Roger Coull studied the violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Trevor Williams and subsequently Frederick Grinke. Always passionate about chamber music, he formed the Coull Quartet as a student under the guidance of Sidney Griller.

The Coull Quartet was appointed quartet-in-residence at the University of Warwick in 1977, and soon established itself as one of Britain’s leading string quartets. The Quartet performs regularly in concerts and radio broadcasts in Britain, Western Europe and the USA and has also toured India, the Far East, Middle East, South America, Australia, China, and more recently Brazil, Berlin, Poland, Iceland and Singapore.

Included in their many critically acclaimed recordings are the complete Schubert Quartets on Upbeat Classics, the complete Mendelssohn Quartets on Hyperion Records (the recommended choice of BBC Radio 3’s Record Review) and a recording of quartets by Walton, Elgar and Bridge which was voted ‘Record of the Year’ by the BBC Music Magazine. The ensemble has a broad repertoire and has retained a strong commitment to contemporary music, commissioning works from eminent British composers such as Robert Simpson, Nicholas Maw and Edward Cowie. One of the Coull Quartet’s recent recordings (Sibelius quartet and piano quintet) was Editor’s choice in the Gramophone magazine. Recently their CD of Alan Ridout’s Six Quartets has been issued on the Omnibus Classics label and in 2019 they recorded piano quintets by Amy Beach and Henrique Oswald for Somm with pianist Clelia Iruzun.

In addition to performing with the Coull Quartet and the Warwick Piano Trio, Roger is versatile musician and also enjoys performing concertos, recitals with piano and conducting orchestras. He was appointed principal conductor of the Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra in 2014. He is also a regular guest conductor of the Beauchamp Sinfonietta, the Guernsey Symphony Orchestra, the Helix Ensemble and the Academy of St Thomas in Norwich, amongst others, and has been recently been invited to conduct the Kammermusik Chamber Orchestra on an annual basis in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Roger also has much experience as a teacher and has given many masterclasses internationally. He is a regular guest at Britain’s music colleges as teacher, examiner, and adjudicator and was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Music for his services to professional music making.

He plays on a violin made in Naples by Nicolo Gagliano which dates from 1761.

In his spare time his hobbies include cycling and photography.