Richard Thomas studied at the University of Wales, the Royal Academy of Music and the Schola Cantorum, Switzerland. As part of his Master of Arts degree, Richard undertook research into the William Shaw Silver State Trumpets housed in the Jewel House, at the Tower of London.

As well as being a regular performer at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London Richard can be heard on the film sound tracks for Shrek III, The Golden Age and Bedtime Stories.

Richard is a founder member and director the acclaimed sackbut and cornett ensemble QuintEssential as well as a founder member of waits band The City Musick. Richard also teaches cornetto and natural trumpet at the Royal College of Music and the Dartington International Summer School.

As a busy freelance player Katie has built up exciting and wide-ranging experience over many different genres and instruments. She studied at Royal Holloway, University of London, graduating with a first class degree, followed by a Masters' Degree in Performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and further studies with Jean-François Madeuf at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Period performance is her specialism and Katie is passionate about exploring instruments and music of the past, from the natural trumpet to more “modern” instruments involving valves such as the soprano saxhorn and the early cornet. Katie is probably the only female to ever have played the “real” natural trumpet (without the aid of vent holes) at the Royal Albert Hall, performing in the BBC Proms with Concert Spirituel, and she is being invited increasingly to play this instrument with ensembles including the Gabrieli Consort, Spiritato and the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble. She is founder of the Altenburg Ensemble and she tutors at the Chalemie Easter School. Katie is also guest-lecturer in historical performance at Trinity Laban College of Music.

Also a “modern” trumpet player Katie plays numerous styles of music, performing with major symphony orchestras, with London Contemporary Orchestra and also on film soundtracks and radio. Her performances in the pop world involve playing for Kanye West and Adele, including Adele's UK tour in 2016 and headlining Glastonbury with her.

When not playing the trumpet Katie enjoys spending time with her family, running, walking and cycling.

Anneke Scott is a leading exponent of historical horn playing. Her work takes her throughout the globe and throughout centuries of music with a repertoire incorporating music and instruments from the late seventeenth century through to the present day.

She is principal horn of several internationally renowned historical performance ensembles including Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, English Baroque Soloists, ensemble Pygmalion, Orchestra of the Sixteen, Irish Baroque Orchestra, and Dunedin Consort as well as regularly appearing as guest principal with ensembles worldwide.

Anneke enjoys an international solo, chamber and orchestral career performing on a whole range of historic horns. Her expertise in baroque horn repertoire ensures that she is frequently to be heard performing the famous obligato arias of composers such as Bach and Handel as well as solo concertos from this period. Her critically acclaimed solo recordings also include three discs of music by the leading Parisian horn player of the nineteenth century; Jaques-François Gallay.

She enjoys collaborating with a wide range of musicians and is a founder member of The Prince Regent’s Band and of Boxwood and Brass. She regularly works with leading period keyboardists including Steven Devine, Neal Peres da Costa and Geoffrey Govier and harpist Frances Kelly.

In 2018 Anneke was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and in 2020 she was awarded the International Horn Society Punto Award.

Martyn is a versatile trombonist based in Birmingham. He gained a First Class Hons degree at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where he won the Conservatoire’s Brass Prize and was awarded the Corton Hyde Early Music Prize. He then went on to further his study on the sackbut at Post-Graduate level gaining a distinction in period performance.

Martyn performs regularly with such groups as Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, The Gabrieli Consort and Players, His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts, English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. This has afforded him the opportunity to perform at exciting venues around the world such as Teatro La Fenice, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Château de Versailles, Palau de La Música, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.

As an educator Martyn teaches Trombone and Sackbut at University of Birmingham as well as giving orchestral coaching sessions and early music workshops there. Martyn was the Brass chamber music tutor for Aldeburgh Youth Music during the 2017/18 season and directed the early music course the following year.

Martyn enjoys collaborating with a diverse range of musicians as a member of Propellor ensemble (a cross-genre based project and artist in residence at Snape Maltings Open Space 2016-18), the amplified contemporary music ensemble DECIBEL, and period brass ensemble The Prince Regent’s Band where he enjoys exploring 19th century repertoire playing the baritone saxhorn and tenorhorn as well as an array of old trombones!

Jeff Miller was born among the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Before moving to London he gained a Bachelor's degree in Music Education from the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music in Tuba from the Mannes College of Music, Manhattan. Jeff's tutors have included David Fedderly of the Julliard School, David Taylor, NYC bass trombonist extraordinaire, and tuba virtuoso Roger Bobo.

As a performer on the serpent, ophicleide, saxhorns, and both early and modern tubas, he has toured the world and recorded with a wide range of fabulous musicians in diverse contexts, including Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, The King’s Consort, and the Prince Regent’s Band. In a more modern context, he has toured and recorded with crossover groups such as medieval jazz fusion group Ars Supernova, the Hackney Colliery Band, and the Spike Orchestra.

In addition to performance practice, his historical music research focuses on the interplay between social context, developing technologies, and innovations in brass instrument design. In contemporary settings, Jeff’s instruments include the tuba, bass trombone, sousaphone, and modular synthesisers. His modern music explores the integration of brass instruments with electronics, particularly in live solo and chamber music contexts, with an emphasis on improvisation and interplay between performers. Jeff is currently pursuing a PhD at the Centre for Digital Music Research (Queen Mary University of London), researching the creation of mathematical tonal spaces to model harmonic sequences and chord similarity.

Richard Fomison studied the trumpet at the Royal Academy of Music under the tuition of Ray Allen, Paul Archibald, Robert Farley and David Staff (natural trumpet). Engagements have included performances with the Philharmonia, City of London Sinfonia, Trafalgar Ensemble, Gabrielli Consort, Florilegium, Ex Cathedra, Academy of Ancient Music ,Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Kings Consort, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Armonico Consort, Drottingholm Baroque, Belmont Ensemble of London, Australian Chamber Orchestra and Deutsche Kammerphilarmonie Bremen.

Whilst being in demand as a freelance modern trumpet player, Richard is also a specialist on the Baroque Trumpet and has been invited as Principal Trumpet to perform with Canadian based group Tafelmusic, Santa Fe Baroque Orchestra (New Mexico) , Le Concert Lorrain and recorded Bach's B Minor Mass with the Leipzig Baroque Orchestra in partnership with the famous Thomas Kirche Boys Choir.

Phil Dale graduated from The Royal Academy of Music after undergoing an intensive 4 year performance course on trombone and historical performance. Since then, he has performed with many of Britain's leading orchestras including The Philharmonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Opera North Orchestra, Garsington Opera Orchestra, Orchestra of St. John’s, Smith Square, English Sinfonia and City of London Sinfonia.

He has also performed and recorded with many of the specialist period instrument ensembles, including The Gabrieli Consort and Players, The Hanover Band, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Canada), The English Baroque Soloists, Early Opera Company, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, The Academy of Ancient Music and The King’s Consort.

He currently holds the position of principal Trombone with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and second trombone with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (Amsterdam).

As well as performing regularly in London’s west end shows, he can also be heard on film soundtracks to Shrek III, Bedtime Stories and commercial solo performances for Sony.

Phil began playing Trombone at the age of 11 with Hucknall and Linby Miners Welfare Brass Band in Nottinghamshire. In 1990 he was offered a place to study at The Royal Academy of Music where he began to explore period instruments and Historically Informed Performance.

Since graduating in 1994, Phil has performed and recorded with many leading specialist period orchestras and ensembles. He is currently Principal Trombone with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) and Co Principal trombone with The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century based in Amsterdam.