Grace Barton graduated from the Birmingham Conservatoire in 1998 with a First Class BMus Hons degree and went on to gain a Diploma in Professional Studies in Recorder Performance.

In 2004 she graduated from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where she had studied recorder with Reine-Marie Verhagen and Historical Performance Practice with Peter van Heyghen and she has also studied with the renowned Anneke Boeke.

Grace has performed regularly as a soloist and with pOLyPhoNiCA Recorder Trio, who released their debut self-titled album in August 2010. She is director of the Wirral Recorder Orchestra and now tutors on various day and residential courses.

Deborah Catterall is a singer, choral specialist and voice teacher. She studied at Manchester University, the Royal Northern College of Music, Huddersfield University and the Royal College of Music where she specialised in Early Music.
She was a Musical Director at the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and a singing teacher at Chetham's Specialist Music School in Manchester.

As a soloist, she has recorded with the Naxos label, Brewhouse music and Beautiful Jo, all with The York Waits. She has a lute song partnership with Martin Eastwell and sings with her own group, Vox Aurum, a branch of her choir, Laudamus, who sing early and late music. Deborah occasionally co-presents The Choir on Radio 3 and in her quiet moments, gives  singing lessons!! In 2005 she was invited to Buckingham Palace in recognition of her services to the British Music Industry.

Elizabeth Dodd studied viol and early dance at the Guildhall School of
Music. After working in London playing with many early music groups and
performing with The Companie of Dancers, she moved to Cumbria 26 years ago
and has been pursuing a freelance career of performing, lecturing and
teaching viol and early dance.

 

Martin Eastwell  studied the lute with Diana Poulton, and at the Royal College of Music with Jakob Lindberg.  His first solo recording, The Royal Lute, appeared in 1991,  In recent years he has performed as a continuo player with many of the country's leading early music groups and orchestras. He has also built up one of the finest collections in the UK of original 18th and 19th Century guitars, which regularly feature in his performances. Having spent much of his career in the London area, in 1995 he moved to Northumberland, and now lives in a C16th farmhouse with his wife, two children together with dogs, cats and chickens.

David Hardie held organ scholarships at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Dunblane Cathedral, before moving to Cheshire in 2003. He has been Director of Music at St Peter's Hale since 2005. David was accompanist to the Chester St Cecilia Singers from 2006 to 2010 when he became their Director. He is currently undertaking a Masters degree in organ performance at the Royal Northern College of Music. David has recorded 2 CDs of solo organ music and broadcast twice on Granada Television. He has played and conducted throughout the United Kingdom and in various parts of Europe.

Peter Syrus graduated with first-class Honours from the University of York in 1971. He remained there to undertake research into fourteenth-century Italian music, and occupied various posts in the music department prior to a move to Manchester in 1975 where he teaches at the Royal Northern College of Music. Two years later, his professional ensemble was chosen to launch the national Early Music Network, and subsequently performed and recorded in most European countries, America and Canada. Peter plays a key role in activities of the regional Early Music Forums in this country. They have provided a platform for numerous appearances at day schools and residential courses, engaging with singers and instrumentalists on repertoire ranging from the late Middle Ages to the mid-seventeenth century.