Julian Williamson has conducted a wide range of professional and amateur orchestras for over 40 years. He has directed concerts with the London Mozart Players, the City of London Sinfonia and the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra. Apart from conducting in all the major London Halls, he has performed in many other venues throughout Britain. His work abroad has taken him to America, Africa, Germany, France and Holland.

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Paula Tysall studied violin at the Centre for Young Musicians (where she was awarded the Associated Board’s Silver Medal), and at the Royal College of Music and the National Centre for Orchestral Studies. As a member of the New London Orchestra she has recorded for Hyperion Records, made broadcasts for the BBC and Classic FM, appeared at the Proms, and in Matthew Bourne’s award winning Swan Lake. She has recorded for Time and Tune (BBC schools radio ). She is a regular member of the Minehead Festival Orchestra. Recent opera performances have been Magic Flute, Marriage of Figaro and L’Elisir d’Amore – all with one player to a part. She was a member of the Inderwick Piano Trio, and the Kinveachy Ensemble which performed Baroque music in hospitals and hospices as part of the Council for Music in Hospitals scheme. Paula plays in the Ashington String Quartet.

Lindsay Ryan has a Bachelor of Music (French Horn) and a Bachelor of Teaching (Honours) gained from the University of Melbourne, Australia. She also has an Associate of Music, Australia performance diploma from the Australian Music Examinations Board.

Lindsay has a passion for conducting that commenced in Australia prior to her arrival in London in 2006, including the completion of her Australian Choral Conductors Education and Training choral conducting qualification in 2000 under the tutelage of Graham Abbott and Faye Dumont and studies at the University of Melbourne in 2001 with Professor John Hopkins. In May 2008, Lindsay was invited to participate in the RNCM conducting workshop with Mark Elder, Mark Heron and Timothy Reynish. Her performance experience in London has included performing with the Bromley Symphony Orchestra and Lewisham Concert Band as well as freelancing.

In addition, Lindsay's expertise includes the establishment of ensembles in various schools, enabling young people to experience creative music-making in choirs, bands, orchestras and drumming ensembles. In 2008 she was the Musical Director and Conductor of Cator Park School's inaugural performance of "The Wizard of Oz" at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley, as well as conducting the school's choir at the O2 Arena for Young Voices, Bromley School Proms and the orchestra, brass ensemble and string group for school and community events. Lindsay is the Associate Conductor of Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra.

William Berger (baritone) (‘...one of the best of our younger baritones’. Gramophone magazine), an Associate and graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, is currently a member of ENO’s Young Singers Programme. Recent appearances have included a Cabaret by Kurt Weill at the Young Vic Theatre, Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony and Five Tudor Portraits, Elgar's Coronation Ode, Handel's Apollo e Dafne with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco), Apollo in Monteverdi's Orfeo for the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston, King Arthur with the Mark Morris Dance Company in California and recording The Carmelites for Chandos.

William made his operatic debut at the Internationale Handel-Festspiele Göttingen, Germany as Ormonte Partenope and has since returned to sing Zebul Jeptha and Mercurio Atalanta. Concert work includes Carmina Burana (CBSO and Royal Albert Hall), Fauré's Requiem (LPO), Jephtha (English Concert), Apollo e Dafne (La Stagione Frankfurt and Nord Deutsche Rundfunk), Saint Saëns’ Oratoire de Noel (Complesso Internazionale Cameristica, Milan), Messiah (Pacific Music Festival, Japan and Halle, Germany), Bach's Weinachts Oratorium (Thaxted Festival), Elijah (British Choral Institute) and the world première of The Angry Garden by Michael Stimpson (St John’s, Smith Square). Recitals include his Wigmore Hall debut, Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch (Oxford Lieder Festival) and Mörike Lieder (Duke’s Hall) and two recordings: Songs of Spring (RAM Song Circle) and October Roses (BMS). Winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers in 1999, he was also awarded a Countess of Munster Trust Scholarship, an MBF grant and the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Award. Future engagements include Valetto The Coronation of Poppea, David A Hand of Bridge and Prince Yamadori Madam Butterfly for ENO, The Creation (Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra), Bach Cantata BWV 10 & Handel ‘Chandos’ Anthem no.9 (The Hanover Band), Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs (Leith Hill Music Festival), recording Manoa in Handel's Samson (NDR Radio Chorus on tour in Kassel, Dresden, Hanover and Halle), Blow's Venus and Adonis (Internationale Handel-Festspiele Göttingen 2008) and Death in Venice (La Monnaie, Brussels).

Christopher Wyatt began learning the flute at the London Borough of Newham Academy of Music at the age of 11. He gained Gold and Silver Awards from the Associated Board. He went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music with Richard Taylor and took part in Master Classes with Geoffrey Gilbert, before a post-graduate year at the National Centre for Orchestral Studies, studying with Peter Lloyd.

Christopher has toured Spain, Portugal and Italy, and has performed with the Halle, Sadlers' Wells Royal Ballet, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the New London Orchestra. Solo appearances include the Ibert Flute Concerto, Bach's Brandenburg Concertos No 1and 5, the latter recorded by the BBC, the Flute Concertos and the Flute and Harp Concerto by Mozart. He has recently performed Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.4 and Chaminade's Concertino at the Minehead and Exmoor Festival. Chris has been principal flute with the Forest Philharmonic Orchestra since 1990.