Violinist Gabi Jones enjoys a diverse career performing as a soloist and chamber musician in the UK and internationally. As both a modern player and a historical specialist, she plays and records regularly with the Academy of Ancient Music, The English Concert, Aurora Orchestra, Solomon’s Knot and Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique.

Gabi is the co-founder of Liturina, a dynamic chamber ensemble specialising in the trio sonata repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as genre-crossover and contemporary music. She is a sought-after leader with ensembles including Istante, Opera Settecento, Wond’rous Machine and the Waterperry Opera Festival Orchestra, and has been a guest leader for Florilegium. In addition, Gabi has directed projects at the Royal College of Music, Chetham’s, and the Baroquestock Festival. She has also spoken as a panellist for events with AAM, RCM and Waterperry Opera Festival on a range of musical topics.

Gabi attended Chetham's School of Music before graduating from Trinity College Cambridge in 2016. She went on to pursue a masters at the Royal College of Music, and was awarded the prestigious Kit and Constant Lambert Fellowship while she gained her Artist Diploma in historical performance.

A passionate music educator, Gabi teaches violin and modern and historical chamber music at Chetham's. She has given masterclasses in the UK and abroad, including competition moderation and adjudication. She is a yeoman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Award-winning, British-Swiss violinist Naomi Burrell enjoys a diverse career as a musician with a specialism in historical performance.  Recently she was elected as an associateship of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) for her contributions to the profession.  To fund her Masters degree here, Naomi received the prestigious Arts and Humanities Research Council Post Graduate award and graduated with a distinction for her research project on Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge upon graduation in 2011.  Before this, she received a double first class on completion of the competitive ‘Joint Course’ between the Royal Northern College of Music (2009) and the University of Manchester  (2008) with funding from Loan Fund for Musical Instruments (2013) and the Abbado European Young Musicians Trust (2015).

She plays with the UK’s leading early music ensembles such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Academy of Ancient Music, I Fagiolini, La Nuova Musica, The Mozartists, Solomon’s Knot and is one of the concert masters for English Touring Opera.  This has led to playing at venues such as the Royal Albert Hall in the BBC Proms, tours around Europe and beyond and recordings with major record labels such as Warner Classics.  Beyond the UK, she also plays with ensembles in Italy, Switzerland, France, Norway, Germany and Portugal and toured extensively with the European Union Baroque Orchestra in 2009.  This brought about the formation of a new orchestra, New Century Baroque, which she co-directed and managed from 2010-17, including a recording for Ambronay Label, 2013.

Naomi’s specialism in early music also leads to performances beyond the concert hall in theatrical projects, such as at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, with ‘Badinage’, a folk ensemble who perform original French street songs from the 18th Century and with the award winning ensemble, ‘Barokksolistene’ from Norway.  She also plays with artists across many other genres such as Dissolute Society / Equal Spirits (‘Wise and Waiting’ was released on Ubuntu Music earlier this year), The Architects (including a live film recording at Abbey Road in 2018), Bring Me the Horizons (Amo, 2019) David Bublé (02 Arena) and with Hans Zimmer for the new BBC David Attenborough series, ‘One Planet Seven Worlds’.

As a soloist and chamber musician, she plays with different musicians depending on the programme (guitar, lute, harpsichord, piano, string quartet or using a loop pedal and electronics) with an improvisatory and genre defying approach.  She also has a strong creative drive: she majored in composition at the University of Manchester, where she received the Hargreaves Award for Composition (2008) and is interested in innovative programming with early music at the core and folk/contemporary at the peripheries.

Rachel Stott is a viola player and composer. She played for some years with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and other period instrument orchestras while also exploring new music with Music Projects of London, Ensemble Exposé and the New Music Players. She currently performs with chamber groups The Revolutionary Drawing Room, Incantati, Trio Notturno and Sopriola and explores repertoire for viola d’amore in both contemporary and baroque contexts. 

Rachel’s compositions have been performed at the London South Bank, Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, in UK festivals and abroad in Europe, America and Japan. She has written four string quartets, for the Fitzwilliam, Dante, Callino and Revolutionary string quartets, and a record-breaking work, Odysseus in Ogygia, for six viola d’amores.  She has particular expertise in writing for period instruments, including viols, cornetts and sackbuts, baryton, lute and theorbo, several of which appear on her CD Odysseus and the Sorceress.  Other works include Stenclmusic, a music theatre piece about the Jewish East End, several song cycles, Several World for massed saxophone ensemble and an opera for children, The Cuckoo Tree, based on the novel by Joan Aiken. Rachel is the Director of Stoke Newington Early Music Festival.

Kate Conway studied the viola da gamba and baroque cello with Jonathan Manson at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with distinction, after gaining first-class honours in Classics from Jesus College, Cambridge. She has played with the English Baroque Soloists and English Touring Opera, and is a former member of the Handel House Talent Scheme. A keen chamber musician, Kate performs regularly with Chelys Consort of Viols, and is a founder member of Ceruleo, who have appeared at the York Early Music Christmas Festival and Baroque at the Edge.

Kate was twice awarded the RAM Nancy Nuttall Ensemble Prize, and has participated in masterclasses at the Greenwich International Early Music Festival and RCM Festival of Viols, playing to Christophe Coin, Alison Crum, Vittorio Ghielmi, Paolo Pandolfo and Jordi Savall. More recent projects include a performance at the Wigmore Hall with Chelys as part of Dame Emma Kirkby’s 70th birthday celebrations, chamber music recitals at festivals in the Lake District and Brecon, and live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ with Ceruleo and Ensemble Molière.

German-born musician Sara Deborah is a versatile performer on the violin and viola covering solo, chamber and orchestra repertoire on both historical and modern instruments. An alumni of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and former string junior fellow at the Royal College of Music, she won a Making Music Award for Young Musicians and the Premio Bonporti for baroque violin in Italy 2017. 

Praised by international press for her ‚singing elegance’ and ‚angelic instrumental voice’, Sara has performed as a soloist in venues including the Wiener Konzerthaus, Cadogan Hall and at the Lufthansa Baroque Festival, and as a chamber musician at the Wigmore Hall and King‘s Place. She has been a section principal for the European Union Baroque Orchestra, Dunedin Consort, and Florilegium, and further works with historical ensembles like the English Concert, OAE and the  Sixteen in concert halls across the world. She was a founder member of the Chiaroscuro string quartet, and has collaborated on various CD recordings and broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. 

As an experienced teacher, she has inspired several generations of musicians at the Menuhin School and Bedales. In her home county Hampshire she directs the string orchestra  SouthDowns Camerata and has founded the yearly Spirit of Music Festival. An activist for compassion, humanity and the environment, she loves walking in nature and foraging, and with her musician husband raises their family of three children, a dog and two Guinea pigs.

Working as a musician with historically informed instruments has led Rosie to playing bass violin, violone in G and 16-foot (double) bass for a variety of concerts and ensembles. 

As a soloist, she has performed live on Radio 3's 'In Tune' with Sean Rafferty where she played two of Dragonetti's 12 waltzs and subsequently performed all 12 in a recital for JAM on the Marsh Festival in 2024. She will play the same programme in October '24 at the Painted Church, Cambridge, and performed the waltzes at the Swedish Church in 2023.  

Rosie was principal bass for Monteverdi's Choir and Orchestras English Baroque Soloists in December 2024 under Christophe Rousset, and is touring with the orchestras Révolutionnaire et Romantique and English Baroque Soloists throughout 2025, both as a principal and tutti player. She is currently a principal continuo player (on violone in G and double bass) for the Oxford Bach Soloists; an ensemble which focuses on J.S. Bach and his contemporaries. The group released their first CD in 2024 and has received 5* reviews for their 'virile, collegiate approach to Bach'.

As a regular performer with Florilegium, she has recorded Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos live on BBC Radio 3 at the York Early Music Festival, performed at Wigmore Hall and recorded Haydn’s symphonies, Le Matin, Le Midi and Le Soir as soloist. In 2022 and 2024, Rosie recorded flute concertos with Ashley Solomon and the ensemble on original instruments with Channel Classics. 

Rosie has played at many festivals in the UK and Europe including English Haydn Festival, Festival Bach de Lausanne, Stour, Valletta Baroque Festival and Brighton Early Music Festival with Dame Emma Kirkby, Flauguissmo Duo and Consone Quartet. As a continuo player she has worked with David Hill, Richard Egarr, Laurence Cummings, Steven Devine (performing on basse de violon for Purcell's Dido and Aeneas) and Pavlo Besnosiuk (on violone for Corelli's violin sonatas). She was part of The London Handel Festival's 'The Realms of Sorrow' in 2023 which was directed by Adele Thomas which received critical acclaim. 

Rosie has performed with The Gabrieli Consort and Players, and La Nuova Musica (both as principal and tutti), Opera Settecento and The Feinstein Ensemble. She has been invited to play with The Sixteen, The King’s Consort and The Hanover Band.

In 2019 she toured Vivaldi’s ‘Griselda’ and in 2024 'L'Olimpiade' (nominated for an Olivier Award 2025)  with Irish National Opera and Irish Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Peter Whelan.

During her Masters at Geneva Conservatoire she participated in The Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment’s scheme. Rosie studied the bass with Peter Buckoke during her undergraduate at The Royal College of Music.

Harpsichordist Masumi Yamamoto performs extensively as a soloist and continuo player. She has given solo recitals in the London Handel Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and will this year appear at King’s Lynn Festival. She has also toured across Europe with such ensembles as the Gabrieli Consort & Players, the Academy of Ancient Music and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Also in demand as a concerto soloist, she has played concertos in the UK, Norway, Japan and Australia. She was a prize winner at the International Harpsichord Competition in Bruges.

Masumi studied at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University in Australia, Royal Academy of Music in London and then at Trinity College of Music with harpsichordist James Johnstone before completing her PhD at the University of York under Peter Seymour. 

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Katie De La Matter works as a freelance historical keyboard player, Baroque vocal coach, and creative director. She is an active continuo player and Baroque repetiteur, working for numerous ensembles and festivals including the London Handel Festival, the Brighton Early Music Festival, Aldeburgh Music, Suffolk Baroque, the Early Opera Company, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Manchester Camerata. She has appeared on BBC Radio 3's In Tune and The Early Music Show as well as Discovery World, and has coached singers appearing with the English National Opera, Les Arts Florissants and Le Concert d'Astrée. Katie has also led dramatic works from the harpsichord, including a promenade production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, an internationally touring production of Handel's Acis and Galatea, and Hasse's Siroe and Marc Antonio e Cleopatra. She was awarded a PhD by City University for her work in early eighteenth-century Italian opera. Katie is also the Artistic Director of Ensemble Tempus Fugit, which is currently developing recordings inspired by its acclaimed cross-cultural historical touring project ‘Calcutta’. 

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