Adam Precious has had a long association with London’s major symphony and chamber orchestras, touring the world extensively. His freelance commitments as a double bass player include film and television work, contemporary music groups and chamber music. He believes strongly in music education, teaching in two major independent schools and at Tonbridge School in Kent and is a popular chamber music tutor and coach, particularly at the Keele Chamber Music Summer School.

Michael is often invited to sit on jury panels at international piano competitions. He is a Lecturer and Director of Performance at Keele University on a part-time basis and also works as accompanist and chamber music player. He proved to be a popular addition to the coaching team of the Keele Chamber Music Summer School in its last few years.

As a chamber musician she is the leader of the Cummings String Trio and the English String Quartet and is artist in residence of the London Festival of Chamber Music. She is also a recitalist and concerto soloist with a very wide and varied repertoire and is in continuous demand as orchestral leader, guest leading many of the major symphony orchestras. In all these capacities she has made many recordings and CDs, has broadcast frequently and toured extensively throughout Great Britain, Europe and the USA. Diana is a professor and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and a professor at Trinity College of Music. She has an international reputation as a teacher and adjudicator.

Bob has been Principal Horn with the orchestra of Opera North since 1978. He has made several appearances as soloist and is a regular member of the chamber group The Music Serenade, whose acclaimed recording of Mozart, Beethoven and Hummel wind octets is available on CD. He is an active member of both the British Horn Society and the International Horn Society, performing at many local seminars. With his Opera North colleagues he founded the Opera North Horn Club, providing a forum for professional, amateur and student horn players.

He has played with a number of leading orchestras, including period instrument ensembles (hand horn/Baroque horn) and has recorded 'Six Vignettes for horn and wind orchestra' by Martin Ellerby and Humphrey Procter-Gregg's Horn Sonata.

Formerly the Senior Horn Tutor at the RNCM, Bob now teaches privately and coaches individuals and ensembles at Leeds University and Leeds College of Music.

As well as performing clarinet music from the 18th and 19th centuries, her long-standing commitment to contemporary music has resulted in over thirty commissions and dedications from notable composers. With her great enthusiasm for the clarinet, in 1992 she launched the celebrated CD label Clarinet Classics which has quickly established itself as a unique showcase for the clarinet in all its richness and diversity. Her own recordings for Clarinet Classics include the world première recording of Copland’s Clarinet Sonata, voted "most sheerly seductive record of the year" by the Sunday Times.

In addition to her playing commitments, Victoria is Professor of Clarinet at Trinity College, London, The Guildhall School of Music & Drama Juniors and Goldsmiths College. She is invited to participate in many workshops, master-classes and special clarinet and saxophone events and is Artistic Director of The International Clarinet and Saxophone Performance Course.

Nick cut his chamber music teeth as cellist with the London Mozart Ensemble alongside violinist David le Page. Subsequently he was invited to become principal cellist with the Orchestra of the Swan. Nick also appears as soloist with the orchestra and takes part in its extensive education and outreach programmes.

As a chamber musician, Nick has enjoyed an exciting career, playing across a wide variety of styles and genres. He has performed with many ensembles including the Fitzwilliam String Quartet and the Brook Street Band and recorded for EMI, Naxos, Somm and Orfeo. He is the featured cellist on Schott's "Baroque around the World" series and his trio "Spirituoso" is currently resident ensemble at Handel House.

Nick is also passionate about the string arrangements of the great Jazz and Soul era and has led cello sections for Smokey Robinson and George Benson. His acclaimed crossover CD "Everything's Coming up Roses", recorded with the other members of Masquerade Quartet was released last year.

Richard returned to this country to take up the post of principal oboe with English National Opera. Two years later he joined the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra as principal oboe, where he stayed for 23 years.

Now freelancing, Richard has appeared as guest principal oboe with many British and European Orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Radio Sinfonie-Orchester Stuttgart, Belgian Chamber Orchestra and Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra. He has broadcast as a recitalist several times for BBC Radio 3.

Currently principal oboe with the Orchestra of the Swan, Richard also teaches oboe at the Birmingham Conservatoire.

Throughout his chamber music career Richard has been privileged to play with many great players, including Pascal Roge, Ronald Brautigam, David Geringas, Cecil Aronowitz, Zoltan Szekely and Sylvia Rosenberg.

He was appointed Associate Principal Viola with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and now freelances, being Principal Viola of the Northern Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Viva and the English Haydn Orchestra (a period instrument band). He has appeared as guest principal viola with many of Britain’s orchestras.

Richard has a wealth of teaching and coaching experience, including at Lancaster University, Southampton University, Christ’s and Notre Dame in Liverpool and the RNCM. Richard has also taught at Higham Hall in Cumbria, St. Andrew’s Summer School and Belfast School of Music.