Angharad Gruffydd Jones studied languages at Clare College, Cambridge, where she was a choral scholar, and then as a scholar at the Royal College of Music. She won the 2000 Miriam Licette Scholarship and the 2004 London Handel Festival Singing Competition. Engagements have included Handel Messiah with the Northern Sinfonia, Handel Samson and Bach St John Passion for the London Handel Festival, Haydn Nelson Mass and Mozart Vespers in the USA with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Vespers in Washington DC under Harry Christophers, and a European tour of Handel L’Allegro ed il Pensieroso under Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Operatic roles include Menotti The Telephone, the title role in Handel Semele and in Handel Orlando for Cambridge Handel Opera Group. She is a keen recitalist and ensemble singer, appearing with groups including The Sixteen, The Brook Street Band, The Bach Players, I Fagiolini and Concordia. Recordings have included music by Rebecca Clarke Leonardo Leo, John Rutter and John Tavener.

Ian Caddy, Hampshire-born and living again in Hampshire, studied singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music for five years. As a principal soloist, he has performed in a wide variety of operas and concerts with all of the major British opera companies and orchestras, as well as amassing an impressive list of engagements around the world: with opera houses, festivals, orchestras and ensembles, Radio and TV. Recently he has sung and presented a series of Gilbert and Sullivan concerts with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He has also worked extensively with the music department of Queen’s University Belfast, on baroque acting technique in opera (see www.BaroqueGestures.com). Ian has also sung, with Paul Esswood conducting, a new piece being written for him, A Canterbury Tale by Ian Schofield, with the Pomeranian Symphony Orchestra in Bydgoszcz, Poland; also Messiah, Dream of Gerontius and Side by Side with Sondheim, along with Opera-recitals in Halle, Graz, Dublin, Limburg and London.



Born is Suffolk, Simon Wall had his musical training first as a chorister at St Edmundsbury Cathedral. After a period at Portsmouth Cathedral, he went to St John’s College Cambridge where he took up a Choral Scholarship. After three year as PA to John Rutter, a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music launched his career as a soloist, performing under Laurence Cummings, John Eliot Gardiner, Richard Hickox, Stephen Layton, Andrew Parrott, John Rutter, and Sir David Willcocks. Recordings include roles in operas from Monteverdi. Cacciniand Purcell to Barber and Tavener. Oratorio performances have included the title role in Handel’s Jepthe, Jean Gilles Requiem and the Evangelist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion.

Oliver-John Ruthven  began his musical career as a chorister at Westminster Abbey. He graduated in 2006 with a first class honours in Music from the University of Manchester. He has been Music Director of Hampstead Garden Opera Company since 2008. After completing a year as keyboards apprentice to the Monteverdi Choir under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, he now works regularly as a continuo player in the English Baroque Soloists. In May of this year, he was harpsichordist for the ensemble's live recordings of Bach's 'Ascension Cantatas'. He has previously held positions as cover conductor to the Royal Ballet and Acting Director of the Halle Youth Choir. Oliver-John is also busy as a freelance tenor, regularly singing for the Monteverdi Choir, Philharmonia Voices and as a tenor deputy for Stile Antico.