"Paul Honey's musical career began as a chorister at Westminster Abbey, where he sang daily in the choir. He is a graduate of at Southampton University where he studied music history, composition and orchestration. Since graduating, he has enjoyed a highly varied musical life, working as a composer and arranger, performer, musical director and producer.

Early on in his career he worked primarily as a pianist and keyboard player. For some years he toured with the acclaimed Asian vocalist Najma Akhtar. The group toured worldwide, including many WOMAD festivals, performing as far afield as Australia, Japan, North America and Europe. However, in the last few years he has concentrated on working as a composer primarily for Film and TV as well as for the concert platform.

Paul has composed music for a wide variety of productions, including the quirky comedy of BBC1's Blandings, the BAFTA winning Old Jack's Boat (recorded with the BBC Philharmonic and BBC Nationals Orchestra of Wales), the BBC Natural History Unit's series Earth's Wildest Waters and the documentary feature The Atom: A Love Affair. He was nominated in 2023 for a Royal Television Society Award and a Music and Sound Award for his score for the documentary feature The People's Piazza: A History of Covent Garden.

Most recently, he has been working with the poet Gregory Warren Wilson on a series of works for voice together with various ensembles. The music includes Five Elements, a work in five movements for Cello and Chamber Choir, and three collections of songs; A Wing of Light, Four Dances and Songs of Ice and Snow, composed for Tenor and Piano, Baritone and Piano and Mezzo Soprano and Saxophone Quartet respectively. The music has been recorded for release in the near future and features the Locrian Singers with the cellist Justin Pearson, tenor James Gilchrist with pianist Anna Tilbrook, and mezzo soprano Frances Gregory with the Delta Saxophone Quartet. The music has received broadcasts both on BBC Radio 3 in the UK and NPO Klassiek in the Netherlands. Performances include A Wing of Light at the Dartington Festival and Songs of Ice and Snow at Late Music, York.

Other collaborations include a collection of orchestral arrangements of traditional Irish music, curated with the violinist Dermot Crehan. Premiered at St Martin in the Fields in London, an album of the music was recorded by the RTE Concert Orchestra."

"Praised for her "idiomatic and stylish singing" (The Telegraph) British mezzo-soprano Frances Gregory is a recent graduate of Royal Academy Opera. A newly appointed Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for the 2023-2025 seasons, she first appeared with the OAE in their acclaimed Bach: The Universe and Everything series this Autumn, with further performances planned in 2024. This season she makes her debut with the English Concert as Arnalta/Nutrice/Famigliare 1 in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Palau de la Musica, Barcelona and Auditorio Nacional, Madrid; with the Gabrieli Consort as alto soloist in Bach's B Minor Mass at the KKL Lucerne, and at The Grange Festival where she returns to Arnalta L'incoronazione di Poppea with La Nuova Musica/David Bates. Later in the summer she will appear at the Vache Baroque Festival. Further concert work for 2024 includes Rossini Petite Messe Solenelle, Dvořák Stabat Mater, Mozart Requiem, performances of Dido and Aeneas, and Handel Messiah.

She began the 22/23 season at Opera North as Apsara and La Messaggera (cover) in Orpheus, an innovative re-imagining of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, musically directed by Laurence Cummings and Jasdeep Singh Degun. Further engagements for 22/23 included Elgar's The Music Makers for Buxton Musical Society, Flosshilde (cover) in a new production of The Rhinegold for English National Opera, The Angel in Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius for the St Endellion Easter Festival and a critically acclaimed return to Longborough Festival Opera as La Messaggera and Proserpina L'Orfeo. She was also a semi-finalist in the 2023 International Handel Singing Competition.

Recently, she created the role of Laura in the world premiere of Tom Coult's Violet at the opening of the 2022 Aldeburgh Festival, with further performances at the Hackney Empire and Buxton International Festival. The production was a collaboration between Britten Pears Arts and Music Theatre Wales, in association with the Royal Opera, and was subsequently nominated for an Independent Opera and UK Achievement in Theatre award. Other recent roles include Nancy in Britten's Albert Herring for Clonter Opera and Claudio in Handel's Silla for Northern Opera Group/Leeds Opera Festival. Previously for MTW she covered and performed the mezzo-soprano role in Philip Venables' European premiere of Denis & Katya, a co-production with Opera Philadelphia.

During 20/21 she was a studio artist with the Opéra National de Lyon and an emerging artist at Longborough Festival Opera, where roles included Maman, La Tasse Chinoise, and La Libellule L'Enfant et les sortilèges and the Fox and Dog The Cunning Little Vixen. She is a former Alvarez Young Artist at Garsington Opera where she covered and performed Flamel in Fantasio by Offenbach, and was one of Laurence Cummings' Handel House Talents for 19-21. For her performance as Sycorax in Jeremy Sams' pastiche The Enchanted Island with British Youth Opera in 2018, she was awarded the Dame Hilda Brackett Award from Sadler's Wells.

Further operatic performances comprise Minskwoman Flight, Juno Semele, Véronique Le Docteur Miracle, Laura Iolanta (all with Royal Academy Opera), Egeo Teseo (London Handel Festival), Idamante Idomeneo (2018 Amersham Festival of Music), and Hansel Hansel and Gretel, directed by Sarah Walker CBE. Chorus work includes the 2021 Glyndebourne Tour, 2017 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and the 2016 Glyndebourne Festival.

Whilst studying she was a Karaviotis scholar, semi-finalist in the National Mozart Singing Competition, winner of the 2018 RAM Club Prize and the Tom Hammond Opera Prize, a RAM/Kohn Foundation Bach cantata soloist, and a member of the Academy's prestigious Song Circle. Prior to joining RAO she received a Distinction in her Masters from the RAM, as well as a DipRAM for an outstanding final recital. Notable engagements whilst studying included Bach's St. Matthew Passion conducted by Trevor Pinnock as part of the RAM Bach: the European series, her Cadogan Hall debut and her Wigmore Hall recital debut, promoting the Balladen of Carl Loewe, for Song Circle."

"Christian Forshaw's distinctive sound as a saxophonist & composer/arranger has attracted a global audience. His recordings have been streamed millions of times and have received much critical acclaim.

To date he has recorded six solo albums which receive regular airplay throughout the world. He was featured by Decca as composer, arranger & performer with Voces8 on the albums Eventide & Lux. More recently his writing and playing was featured on When Sleep Comes, a collaboration with Nigel Short and Tenebrae.

Forshaw's music has been heard in a number of film and television scores, including the 20th Century Studios blockbuster The Last Duel directed by Ridley Scott, and A Song For Jenny for the BBC.

Christian has performed and recorded with artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Damon Albarn, Moondog, Hugh Jackman, The Divine Comedy, Michael Nyman Band, BBC Singers & the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. "

"Tim Holmes is a very experienced musician and much sought after in the UK and abroad. His work sees him regularly playing and recording with all the major London and provincial orchestras and chamber music ensembles, including the LSO, RPO, Philharmonia, City of London Sinfonia, Lontano.

Tim has also worked extensively in London's West End theatres, in shows such as "Wonderful Town", "Carmen Jones", "Guys and Dolls", "Oklahoma", "Witches of Eastwick", and "The Producers".

Tim was a member of the jazz saxophone quartet "Itchy fingers" for a couple of years. He is currently a member of the Steve Martland Band, and the jazz quartet "Candytime". Tim was invited to join the Delta Saxophone quartet in April of 2006, which means that the Steve Martland Band saxophone section is now 3/4 of the DSQ!"

"Chris graduated from the Guildhall School Of Music & Drama in 1986 having studied with Stephen Trier. As a performer he's been involved with some of Britain's leading contemporary composers and ensembles including The Mike Westbrook Orchestra, BCMG, Steve Martland Band, London Saxophonic, Michael Nyman Band and The Delta Saxophone Quartet.

Chris has also performed with many of the UK's leading orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, CBSO, Royal Opera House, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia. He has worked in the West End for the last fifteen years playing in many productions including Les Miserables, Cats, Chicago, Follies, City Of Angels, Guys and Dolls and La Cage aux Folles.

His commercial work has seen International tours with the London Concert Orchestra (Anton & Erin from Strictly Come Dancing), Shirley Bassey Orchestra in Russia, Lebanon, Turkey, Cairo and the UK plus tours of Asia, Japan and Europe with the Michael Nyman Band, Grahamophones, and for a variety of theatre groups.

Since 2009, Chris has been exploring and developing a new area of improvisations and compositions with Susie Hodder-Williams, inspired by the natural history of Dartmoor. The Mariner's Way CD is the first result of this fruitful partnership which was launched at the Greenaway Barn Gallery as part of the Devon Open Studios. In 2010, he set up a performance series, in Devon, called Music on the Edge which has found its first home in the engaging Long Room, Drewsteignton."

"Paul Honey's musical career began as a chorister at Westminster Abbey, where he sang daily in the choir. He is a graduate of at Southampton University where he studied music history, composition and orchestration. Since graduating, he has enjoyed a highly varied musical life, working as a composer and arranger, performer, musical director and producer.

Early on in his career he worked primarily as a pianist and keyboard player. For some years he toured with the acclaimed Asian vocalist Najma Akhtar. The group toured worldwide, including many WOMAD festivals, performing as far afield as Australia, Japan, North America and Europe. However, in the last few years he has concentrated on working as a composer primarily for Film and TV as well as for the concert platform.

Paul has composed music for a wide variety of productions, including the quirky comedy of BBC1's Blandings, the BAFTA winning Old Jack's Boat (recorded with the BBC Philharmonic and BBC Nationals Orchestra of Wales), the BBC Natural History Unit's series Earth's Wildest Waters and the documentary feature The Atom: A Love Affair. He was nominated in 2023 for a Royal Television Society Award and a Music and Sound Award for his score for the documentary feature The People's Piazza: A History of Covent Garden.

Most recently, he has been working with the poet Gregory Warren Wilson on a series of works for voice together with various ensembles. The music includes Five Elements, a work in five movements for Cello and Chamber Choir, and three collections of songs; A Wing of Light, Four Dances and Songs of Ice and Snow, composed for Tenor and Piano, Baritone and Piano and Mezzo Soprano and Saxophone Quartet respectively. The music has been recorded for release in the near future and features the Locrian Singers with the cellist Justin Pearson, tenor James Gilchrist with pianist Anna Tilbrook, and mezzo soprano Frances Gregory with the Delta Saxophone Quartet. The music has received broadcasts both on BBC Radio 3 in the UK and NPO Klassiek in the Netherlands. Performances include A Wing of Light at the Dartington Festival and Songs of Ice and Snow at Late Music, York.

Other collaborations include a collection of orchestral arrangements of traditional Irish music, curated with the violinist Dermot Crehan. Premiered at St Martin in the Fields in London, an album of the music was recorded by the RTE Concert Orchestra."