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James Baillieu

Sought after as an accomplished chamber musician, soloist and accompanist, James has curated a series exploring the chamber music and songs of Poulenc and Hahn at Brighton Festival, worked with Thomas Quastoff at the Verbier Festival, taken part in the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, and recorded for BBC Radio 3 with Ben Johnson, Robin Tritschler, Ruby Hughes and the Signum Quartet. He has given recitals at Wigmore Hall with Kathryn Rudge, Lisa Milne, Adam Walker, Sophie Bevan, Ailish Tynan, Marcus Farnsworth, Ian Bostridge and Mark Padmore.

Benjamin Baker

Winner of the 2013 Windsor Festival International String Competition, Benjamin Baker was born in 1990 in New Zealand, Benjamin studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music with Natasha Boyarsky and Felix Andrievsky.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBC NOW) is one of the UK’s most versatile orchestras, with a varied range of work as both a broadcast orchestra and national symphony orchestra of Wales. The Orchestra’s adventurous programming is driven by Principal Conductor Thomas Søndergård and Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka. Welsh composer Huw Watkins becomes Composer-in-Association in October.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

The BBC Symphony Orchestra has played a central role at the heart of British musical life since it was founded in 1930. It provides the backbone of the BBC Proms, performing around a dozen concerts in the festival each year. Highlights of the 2016 Proms season include performances of Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky, Janáček’s opera The Makropolus Case plus the First and Last Nights, both conducted by BBC SO Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo.

Alasdair Beatson

Pianist Alasdair Beatson is highly regarded as a distinctive and vibrant musician.

Benyounes Quartet

Winners of the 2012 1st International Sándor Végh String Quartet Competition in Budapest, plus four special prizes including Best Interpretation of a Bartok Quartet; the Benyounes Quartet is gaining a reputation as one of the most engaging, dynamic and successful young quartets to have emerged from the UK in recent years.

Mary Bevan

Mary Bevan trained at the Royal Academy Opera, and read Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic at Trinity College, Cambridge. She received various awards and prizes at the RAM, and was a member of the Royal Academy Song Circle, and the soprano soloist for the Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series. She is currently a Harewood Artist at the English National

Sophie Bevan

The recipient of the Young Singer award at the inaugural 2013 International Opera Awards, Sophie Bevan is now at the forefront of the new generation of young British singers.

Robin Blaze

Robin Blaze is now established in the front rank of interpreters of Purcell, Bach and Handel, and his career has taken him to concert halls and festivals in Europe, North and South America, Japan and Australia. His opera engagements have included Athamas Semele at Covent Garden; Didymus Theodora for Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Arsamenes Xerxes, Oberon A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamor Jephtha for English National Opera; and Bertarido Rodelinda at the Göttingen Handel Festival.

David Bowerman

David Bowerman was born in 1936 and took a BSc degree before a long career in farming. Family duties did not allow any form of musical training and his knowledge of musical matters is largely self-taught. It was only after retirement that he and his wife built "The Music Room" at their home, Champs Hill, and musical interest was re-kindled. This has opened vast opportunities to present classical music to the people of Sussex, to give young artists the chance to play in public and to make recordings.