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Joanna Nicholson and Emma Lloyd

Clarinettist Joanna Nicholson graduated from the Royal College of Music, where she was the winner of an Exhibition Scholarship and numerous prizes. She pursueS a lively freelance career performing, broadcasting and recording with many of the UK’s finest orchestras and ensembles, and featuring as a soloist – notably on Bass Clarinet with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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Tom Poulson, Danielle Price and Timothy Cooper

Tom Poulson is the recent winner of both the Trumpet and Contemporary prizes at the Aeolus International Competition for Wind Instruments, receiving 2nd place overall.  Other prizes include the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, Making Music’s Philip & Dorothy Green Award and Bromsgrove International Young Musicians’ Platform.  Tom has performed concertos with the Düsseldorf Symphoniker, SInfonietta

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The Aurea Quartet

During their first year performing together, the Aurea Quartet were tfinalists in the 1st Sándor Végh International String Quartet Competition in Budapest where they were awarded a special prize for their outstanding performance of Lajtha String Quartet No.7. They were winners of the St Martin-in-the-Fields chamber music prize 2014, and after a series of successful auditions, were

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Carla Rees

Carla Rees is a UK-based low flutes player. She is the artistic director of Rarescale, an ensemble which exists to promote chamber music repertoire for low flutes, and Director of low flutes publishing company, Tetractys. She has been working closely with Michael and Matthew along with other composers who are writing new works for the tour. The contrabass

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Electric Clarinet

Electric Clarinet performing music for clarinet and electronics by composers including Monty Adkins and Matthew Whiteside performed by Electric Clarinet. Electric Clarinet, formed in 2014, is a collaboration between Joanna Nicholson (clarinets) and Matthew Whiteside (composer and electronics) to perform new music for clarinets with electronics.

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Red Note

Red Note Ensemble was founded in 2008 by Scottish cellist Robert Irvine, and is directed by John Harris (Chief Executive and Artistic Co-Director) and Robert Irvine (Artistic Co-Director). The Ensemble performs the established classics of contemporary music; commissions new music; develops the work of new and emerging composers from around the world; and finds new spaces and new

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