Judy Tarling

JUDY TARLING, LRAM, Hon.RAM, ARAM, BA, MA, was born in Brighton and studied at Dartington College of Arts, the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. After a period playing in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Judy became interested in early music, running her own chamber ensemble Brighton Baroque for some years in the 1970s. She became involved in the early Academy of Ancient Music recordings of the complete Mozart symphonies and in 1981 was invited to join The Parley of Instruments, a group specialising 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 has also led the band of Opera Restor'd and the Cambridge Baroque Camerata.

      Judy has been a tutor for the European Union Baroque Orchestra, and has lectured on Baroque style at the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music, and Trinity College of Music. Judy Tarling is actively engaged in research into performance style and has written two books: Baroque String Playing for ingenious learners (2000) and The Weapons of Rhetoric, a performer's guide to the connection between music and rhetoric (2004). She has been leading The Consort of Twelve since 2001.

Ian Graham-Jones

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 was been spent in education, as Director of the Cornwall Rural Music School, where he conducted the Cornwall Symphony Orchestra and ran a summer festival of early music, and then as Head of Music at Chichester College. During his nine years in Cornwall he was made a Bard of Cornish Gorsedd for his services to music. For 30 years he was Associate Lecturer in Music at the Open University, teaching on their music courses and at summer schools.

      As a player of piano, harpsichord, viols and cello, he was for a while a member of The English Consort of Viols. In Sussex he founded the Southern Early Music Forum in 1983, and since that year has been both administrative director and continuo player of The Consort of Twelve.

     His early publications incude music for viols and two harmony text books. In association with A-R Editions he has recently published critical editions of the music of Chichester composer John Marsh (1752-1828), and Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884). Both the symphonies of Marsh and Smith have been recorded, the latter with Chandos and the London Mozart Players.