The Performers

Each of the ensemble's principal players combine their Kreisler work with busy professional solo and orchestral careers, between them holding several principal positions in major UK orchestras, and performing regularly in venues as wide-ranging as The Royal Opera House, Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and London's Coliseum.

Principals

Natalie Raybould, soprano, studied at Oxford and the Royal Academy Opera. Natalie has been involved in many of the most exciting advances in English opera in recent years. Most recently, she created the role of Lover in the world premiere of Liebeslied/My Suicides (Clark/Blees Luxumberg/Duttman), a ground-breaking collaborative ICA/Genesis co-production. She has worked with Almeida Opera, ENO and Aldeburgh Productions in developing new operas, and has worked with The Clod Ensemble and SingCircle in world premieres. Most recently she made her Royal Opera House debut, creating the role of Female Narrator in the world premiere of Pinocchio (Tuckett/Ward). Concert perrformances includes Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire (many venues including the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam under Klaus Ager), Shostakovich Symphony 14, Berio Sequenza and most recently the world premiere of The Glory Tree (Cheryl Frances-Hoad) and Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire as part of the FRESH! season on the South Bank.

Iain Farrington, piano, performs extensively as a piano accompanist and organist both in the UK and abroad. As an accompanist, Iain has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, Royal Opera House, and in Japan, South Africa and Jordan. He has worked with John Mark-Ainsley, David Wilson- Johnson, Lesley Garrett, the Royal Ballet, the BBC singers and Almeida Opera, under such conductors as Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Colin Davis and Thomas Ades. In 2001, he won the Megan Foster Accompanist Prize in the Maggie Teyte Competition. Iain is also a prolific composer and arranger, having made over sixty arrangements for organ, piano and chamber ensembles. His solo piano arrangements of Elgar/Payne Symphony No.3 is published by Boosey and Hawkes. Two movements from his organ suite Fiesta! have recently been recorded on the Hyperion label by Christopher Herrick.

Tom Hankey, violin, is one of the leading violinists of his generation in the UK chamber-music scene. He led the Tavec string quartet from 1998-2002, which won the Royal Overseas League prize, the Net 4 prize in the Bristol Millenium chamber music competition and the Helen Just prize at the RCM. They performed in the Wigmore Hall, the RFH , the Edinburgh, Cheltenham, King's Lynn and Aix en Provence festivals and, with the support of the Countess of Munster Trust, for Music Societies around England.His piano quartet also recently won the Royal Overseas League prize. For the last few years he has been a member of Kuotet which is flexible chamber group based on a string trio, which specializes in mixed programs of classical, contemporary and Scottish traditional music and regularly tours the Highlands.

Adrian Wilson, oboe, studied at the RAM with Dougie Boyd, Geoff Brown, Melinda Maxwell, Tess Miller and Celia Nicklin. While at the Academy Adrian trained with the LSO on their orchestral scheme, performed with the BBC Philharmonic, the Halle, Sinfonia 21, Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Nash Ensemble. He has also worked with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, English National Ballet, London Chamber Players and as Principal oboe with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. From 2002-2003 Adrian was a member of the prestigious European Union Youth Orchestra.

Regular guest performers

Peter Sparks - clarinet
Joe Sharp - trumpet
Simon Williams - percussion
Clara Biss - viola
Juliet Bausor- flute
Chris Richards- clarinet