Isabelle Allan, is currently studying the violin with Stephanie Gonley at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she is about to start her final year of her undergraduate studies. Isabelle enjoys playing chamber music, exploring the extensive repertoire for both the modern and baroque violin. She has attended various festivals in the last few years with her quartet, both in Germany and in the UK.

Levi Collin is a pianist, mezzo-soprano, violinist and choral director from Newcastle. They are currently studying English Literature and Music at the University of Manchester, and are heavily involved with the music society and musical theatre society. As a singer, Levi was a member of Samling Academy for five years, and this year was a choral scholar for HeartEdge Manchester, run by St-Martin-in-the-Fields. They have also sung twice as a soloist with the Manchester University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and are an alumnus of NYO. Levi is an Assistant MD for Happy Voices community choir in Bolton, and has also earned a place on the Manchester University Choral Conducting programme for the coming year.

Seth is a cellist from Newcastle, currently studying with Louise Hopkins. He will begin his postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in September, supported by Help Musicians UK. A keen chamber musician, Seth has received coaching from members of the Doric, London Haydn, Maggini and Brodsky quartets and was a member of the Instrumental Award Scheme during his undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge. Prior to this Seth was co-principal cellist in the National Youth Orchestra, and studied with Jennifer Langridge at the Junior RNCM, where he won the concerto competition. Based in Newcastle this year, he has been conducting and assisting with the St. Paul’s Youth Ensembles in Benton.

is currently in her second year studying Music at Clare College and makes the most of the many opportunities for music making, as a violinist, violist and conductor, both within Clare and across the University. Daphne has a particular passion for chamber music; she attended the MusicWorks chamber music courses for several years and is a Cambridge University Instrumental Award holder.

She has a keen interest in historically informed performance, having first played on Baroque instruments last year with the Cambridge University Collegium Musicum, led by Margaret Faultless.

Daphne conducts the Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra. She studies violin with Jane Gordon and conducting with Roland Melia

Matthew is a violist from Whitley Bay in the North East, currently based in Manchester, where he is studying at the Royal Northern College of Music with Lucy Nolan. Recent highlights include performing alongside in projects Manchester Collective, Manchester Camerata and the BBC Philharmonic and as co-principal viola of the St Endellion Easter Festival 2024. As a session musician, Matthew frequently plays with the Northern Film Orchestra and can be heard on May Payne’s EP ‘Sane’. Matthew has performed in chamber music concerts with the Hive Sinfonia and the Osian Ensemble. He also attended the English Camerata Soloists chamber music course as an intern in 2022 and 2023.

Daniel has just graduated from reading Music at Clare College, Cambridge after studying piano and composition at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester. While there, he took lessons with Murray McLachlan, and won the school concerto prize following a performance of Britten’s Piano concerto. As a composer, after winning 2019’s BBC Young Composer, his piece Fanfares was premiered by the BBC Concert Orchestra in the summer of this year. At the moment, he studies piano with Tessa Nicholson.

Alma is in her final year reading English at the University of Cambridge while studying the violin with David Takeno in London. She has participated in masterclasses with members of the London Haydn and Doric String Quartets, Philippe Graffin, Krysia Osostowicz, among others. At Cambridge, Alma is on the Instrumental Award Scheme and is a member of the University Orchestra, with whom she will perform as a soloist in Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante in May. On baroque violin, she has been mentored by Margaret Faultless and Nicholas Mulroy, and played in the Dartington Baroque Orchestra (2023) led by Rachel Podger. She will start studying in the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague

Cameron Walls is a nineteen-year-old cellist from Gateshead, studying at the Royal Academy of Music with John Myerscough, as a scholarship holder. He was principal cello of the Young Sinfonia at Sage Gateshead and a member of the National Youth Orchestra in 2022, which led to multiple performances broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and most notably a performance at the BBC Proms 2022. He won the Avison Ensemble Young Musician's Award, and his piano trio at the Academy receives regular coaching with esteemed musicians such as Anthony Marwood, Marije Johnston, Adrian Brendel, and members of the Barbican and Doric String Quartets.