Matthew Barley has created a unique international career full of improvisation, new music, cutting-edge computer technology, collaboration with jazz and Indian musicians, education, and arranging – but always with cello playing at the heart. He has played with top orchestras (Frankfurt Radio Symphony, BBC Philharmonic/Scottish, Czech Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony), in some great concert halls, given premieres by composers including MacMillan, Dusapin, Larcher and Deep Purple’s Jon Lord and appeared on tv and radio worldwide.

Hailed as ​“one of the most thoughtful and sensitive of British pianists” (The Times), Mishka Rushdie Momen captivates audiences with her refined and expressive playing.

Mishka Rushdie Momen’s wide repertoire focuses on Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann, whilst reaching back to Gibbons and Rameau. Committed to performing new music, Mishka Rushdie Momen has commissioned works by Nico Muhly and Vijay Iyer, and premiered An Inviting Object by Héloïse Werner at the Lucerne Summer Festival in 2022.

One of London’s leading chamber choirs, The Purcell Singers was formed in 1994 by conductor and organist Mark Ford. They have performed extensively in prestigious London venues, in addition to international tours. The choir has so far recorded six classical albums, including two première discs of works by Georg Schumann, the first of which was Gramophone Magazine’s Critics’ Choice in January 2002, and the second also described as a “hugely impressive disc” (Gramophone).

Benjamin Kirk was born in Beverley, East Yorkshire, to missionary parents. He spent his early years in Portugal, Brazil, and the United States, before falling in love with choral music while a chorister at Ripon Cathedral. After leaving Christ’s Hospital School in 2011, Benjamin moved to Tallinn, Estonia to begin studying Choral Conducting under Tõnu Kaljuste, at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.

Benjamin won 3rd Prize in the 2019 World Choral Conducting Competition in Hong Kong, and is now Musical Director of the Leeds Guild of Singers, the Lea Singers in Harpenden, and Sine Nomine International Touring Choir.

British-Russian dancer Nadia Mullova-Barley is a Soloist of The Royal Ballet. She joined The Royal Ballet’s Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme from the start of the 2017/18 Season and was promoted to Artist in 2018, to First Artist in 2023 and to Soloist in 2026.

American dancer Liam Boswell is a Soloist of The Royal Ballet. He joined The Royal Ballet’s Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme from the start of the 2019/20 Season and was promoted to Artist in 2020, First Artist in 2023 and Soloist in 2024.