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Alfred Brendel

Alfred Brendel studied piano and composition in Zagreb and Graz, completing his piano studies with Edwin Fischer, Paul Baumgartner and Eduard Steuermann. For 60 years he has enjoyed a distinguished international career concentrating on the works of central European composers from Bach to Schoenberg but also featuring many works by Liszt. He was the first pianist to record Beethoven's complete piano works, and was highly influential in getting Schubert's Piano Sonatas and the Schoenberg Piano Concerto recognised as integral parts of the piano repertoire. He has performed regularly at the world's musical centres and festivals, and with the leading orchestras and conductors, and his extensive discography has made him one of the most respected artists of our time. His final concert appearance was with the Vienna Philharmonic on December 18, 2008, which was recently voted one of the 100 greatest cultural moments of the last ten years by The Daily Telegraph.

Simon Channing

After finishing his studies with Peter Lloyd in 1982, Simon Channing worked regularly as a freelance flautist with the English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra before joining the LPO as sub-principal flute in 1988. He was a member of the orchestra for eight years, including three as chairman, and his wide orchestral experience has included playing for many of the world's great conductors, including Solti, Tennstedt, Mehta, Haitink and Rattle. In 1997 he was granted a year's sabbatical by the LPO to become Head of Woodwind Brass and Percussion at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts before returning to London as Head of Performance Planning at the Royal College of Music. He became Head of Woodwind at the RCM in 2010.

Endellion Quartet (Andrew Watkinson, Ralph de Souza, Garfield Jackson and David Waterman)

The Endellion String Quartet has appeared at nearly all of the major series and festivals in Britain and is regularly broadcast on BBC radio and television; it has appeared at the Proms, and it has been featured in the week-long programmes 'Artist of the Week' and 'Artists in Focus'. They have worked with guest artists including members of the former Amadeus Quartet, Sir Thomas Allen, Joshua Bell, Michael Collins, Steven Isserlis, Mitsuko Uchida and Tabea Zimmerman. In 1996 the quartet were winners of the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Best Chamber Ensemble. The quartet has been in residence at the University of Cambridge since 1992.

Margaret Faultless

Margaret Faultless is a violinist and director; performing music from Monteverdi to the present day, she is best known as a specialist in eighteenth-century repertoire. She has been a co-leader of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment since 1989 and directs the orchestra in some baroque programmes. She is an Artistic Director of the Cambridge University Collegium Musicum. She lectures on performance practice, is Director of Studies of the European Union Baroque Orchestra and a frequent guest teacher and director at the Royal Academy of Music. She is also the Director of Performance Studies at the Faculty of Music in Cambridge, a Bye-Fellow of Girton College, and Musician in Residence at St John's College.

Christopher Hogwood

Christopher Hogwood, once described as 'the von Karajan of early music', is equally active in 19th- and 20th-century repertoire. A celebrated conductor, musicologist and keyboard player, his catalogue of over 200 recordings with the Academy of Ancient Music on Decca includes the complete Mozart and Beethoven symphonies. He has worked with most leading symphony orchestras and opera houses in the world. As a musicologist he covers music from the 16th (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book) to the 20th (Martinů, Elgar, Stravinsky) centuries, and is currently re-editing the complete works of Francesco Geminiani. Christopher is Emeritus Honorary Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge, Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and Gresham Professor of Music.

Janis Kelly

Janis Kelly made her debut at ENO after graduating from the RCM Opera School and has since been a regular guest in operas by Mozart, Gilbert and Sullivan, Weill, Monteverdi, Purcell, Humperdink, Offenbach, Birtwistle and Glass. Janis has performed with the Matrix Ensemble, the Halle Orchestra, The Sixteen in Spain, the Orquestra y Coro Cumminidad de Madrid and at the BBC Proms. Current projects include Nella in Gianni Schicchi at ROH, Mrs Naidoo Satyagraha at ENO, the title role in Prima Donna by Rufus Wainwright at Sadlers Wells, Toronto, Melbourne, Paris and New York and her debut in Nixon in China at the Metropolitan Opera January 2011. She can be seen as Liu Turandot in the Hollywood movie The Life of David Gale. Janis Kelly has been a vocal professor at the Royal College of Music since 2007.

Helen Reid

Helen Reid has given solo piano recitals at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Fairfield Halls and Blackheath Halls, London, St. George's, Bristol, Cheltenham, the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and the Aldeburgh and Hampstead and Highgate Festivals. In 2006 she was named a 'rising star' in The Independent. Helen teaches at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Leeds College of Music and Trinity College of Music. Recent research projects include the 'Psychological impact of injuries on musicians', undertaken for the Guildhall School.

Susan Tomes

Susan Tomes is a pianist and writer. She grew up in Edinburgh and was the first woman to be admitted to study music at King's College, Cambridge. She is the pianist of the Florestan Trio, one of the world's leading piano trios. Her discography contains over fifty discs of solo, duo and chamber music as well as hundreds of radio recordings made around the world. She is committed to the task of opening up classical music for listeners, and in recent years this has inspired her to write about it as well as performing it. She is the author of three books, writes for The Guardian, reviews books for The Guardian and The Independent and has written and presented programmes on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4.