JUDY TARLING LRAM, Hon. ARAM was born in Brighton and studied at Dartington College of Arts, the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, London. After a period playing in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Judy became interested in early music, running her own chamber group 'Brighton Baroque' for some years in the seventies. She became involved in the early Academy of Ancient Music recordings of the complete Mozart symphonies and in 1981 was invited to join the recently formed Parley of Instruments, a group specializing in 17th century string consort repertoire, which she now leads. She was principal viola of The Hanover Band for 20 years, recording much symphonic music on original instruments, and a member of Roy Goodman’s Brandenburg Consort. She also has led the band of Opera Restor’d since its inception, and The Cambridge Baroque Camerata. She has been a tutor for the European Union Baroque Orchestra, and has lectured on Baroque style at Cambridge University, The Royal Academy of Music, The Royal College of Music and Trinity College of Music, London. She is actively engaged in research into performance style and has written two books: Baroque String Playing for ingenious learners published in March 2000, and is now used by leading teachers of Baroque instruments world-wide, and The Weapons of Rhetoric, a performers’ guide to the connection between music and rhetoric. She has been leading The Consort of Twelve since 2001.

IAN GRAHAM-JONES, B. Mus, LRAM, ARCM, trained at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won prizes for aural training and musicological research. His full-time work has been spent in education, as Director of the Cornwall Rural Music School, and subsequently as Head of School of Music at Chichester College. During his nine years in Cornwall he was elected a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd for services to music in the county. For the last 25 years he has been an Associate Lecturer in music for the Open University, teaching on their music courses and summer schools. As a player of piano, harpsichord, viols and cello, he was for a while a member of the English Consort of Viols and conductor of the Cornwall Symphony Orchestra. In Sussex he founded the Southern Early Music Forum in 1983, and since that year has been director and continuo player of The Consort of Twelve. His publications include editions of music for viols and two harmony textbooks. His special research interest has been the music of John Marsh (1752-1828), whose music he has edited, the symphonies having recently been published in a two-volume critical edition by A-R Editions. In 1989 he directed a recording of Five Symphonies by John Marsh available on CD (OCD400). He is also researching into the music of Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884), the first English woman symphonist, whose two symphonies were published for the first time in 2003, again with A-R Editions, and now recorded with the London Mozart Players on Chandos (CHAN 10273).

DAVID ROWLAND is Professor of Music at the Open University and Director of Music at Christ’s College, Cambridge.  As well as being a performer himself, he is the author of three books on the performance practice and history of the piano and early keyboard instruments. He has published extensively on Clementi and his edition of Clementi’s correspondence will shortly be published.

GERRY McDONALD studied at the Royal Academy of Music where he won several major prizes and scholarships. He is one of the few present day musicians to re-create the 18th century practice of multi-instrument competence and his performing career is devoted mainly to solo and chamber work on historical woodwind (flute, oboe recorders and chalumeau) and works for recorder involving extended techniques. His teaching, coaching and consulting activities have included work for London and Cambridge Universities, the RAM, Royal College of Music and Trinity College of Music. He has worked with the Consort of Twelve since its inception, playing all of his various instruments.

SOPHIE MIDDLEDITCH

LYNDEN CRANHAM