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Teresa Wrann - Recorder
After graduating her studies in Austria with distinction (BA), Teresa moved to London in 2017 where she graduated from her Master’s Degree (MPerf/MMus) in 2019 and has completed a 2 year Artist Diploma degree at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Teresa has enjoyed various competition successes across Europe. She was a multiple awardee at the nationwide competition “Prima la Musica” (AT) and the “Youth Music Competition Schiers” (CH) and has participated in the ORDA competition in Amsterdam (NL). She has performed with the VLK orchestra, the Symphonic Wind Orchestra Vorarlberg and was part of the talent concert schemes of the Austrian national broadcasting corporation, ORF and the „Podium Konzerte”, where she played for the Princess of Liechtenstein. Having experience as a soloist as well as a chamber musician, she has performed at prominent venues and events including St. Martin-In-The-Fields, Blackheath Halls, V&A Museum, Milton Court, Apothecaries Hall, Montforthaus Feldkirch & Kulturhaus Dornbirn (AT), English National Opera, at the London Handel Festival, the Brighton Early Music Festival, the Open Recorder Days Amsterdam and OudeMuziek Festival Fringe (NL).
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Jonatan Bougt - Theorbo, Baroque Guitar
Award winning Swedish guitarist and theorbist Jonatan Bougt is a graduate of the Royal College of Music (RCM), London, where he studied with Jakob Lindberg, Carlos Bonell and Chris Stell as an RCM Scholar supported by the Musician’s Company Lambert Studentship.
He completed his Master of Historical Performance degree with Distinction in 2019 and holds a First Class Bachelor of Music (Honours) degree, graduating in 2017. During his studies, he was the 1st Prize winner of the RCM Guitar Prize (2017) and the RCM Historical Performance Competition (2019), receiving The Century Fund Prize and The Richard III Prize.
In 2021, Jonatan was awarded the 1st Prize in the NORDEM 2020 EAR-ly competition, for his "graceful playing, stage presence that leads the listener to the music" and for his "elegant and natural way of playing as well as understanding of style and musical rhetoric”. Other noteworthy awards include the 1st Prize in the Swedish Guitar & Lute Society’s Jörgen Rörby Competition (2014) and the 1st Prize in the Uppsala International Guitar Festival’s Young Talents Competition (2013).
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Thomas Pickering - Harpsichord, Flute, Recorder
Thomas has recently graduated from his undergraduate degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama London, who have also awarded him the concert recital diploma for exceptional performance. He is continuing his postgraduate studies of recorder, Baroque flute and early keyboards at the Royal Academy for Music and Drama.
As well as being a dedicated educator, he enjoys a busy schedule filled with exciting performance opportunities. Recent highlights have included playing in the ENO's Olivier Award winning production of ‘Noye’s Fludde’, as well as playing alongside members of The Academy of Ancient Music in a series of concerts and touring with Opera North as the Principal Recorder player for a production of ‘The Greek Passion’. He also successfully auditioned and completed the Wigmore Hall’s Chamber Tots scheme, leading educational workshops for toddler and young children.
Over the last three years, Thomas has taken part in lessons and masterclasses both as a soloist and as part of an ensemble with various people, such as Maurice Steger, Rachel Podger, Karel van Steenhoven and Dorothee Oberlinger. In his first year at GSMD he was selected to play the principal recorder part in the school’s opera; a production of ‘Venus and Adonis’ by John Blow, and has since been asked to play again for both Charpentier's 'Orphée descendant aux enfers' and Carissimi's 'Judicium Salomonis'.
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Harry Buckoke - Viola da Gamba
Harry studied English Literature then Aesthetics before studying Viola da Gamba with Paolo Pandolfo.
A keen chamber musician, he is a member Lux Musicae London, Dramma Per Musica and Dowland Works and appears on recordings with Fair Oriana, Ensmble Augeletti, Fieri Consort and Chelys consort of viols.
He is currently a Phd Candidate at the Orpheus Institue. His research focuses on accompanimental practices of intabulation and bass line realisation during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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Daniel Watt - Percussion
Daniel Watt is a freelance drummer and percussionist based in London, having studied orchestral percussion at the Royal Academy of Music, as well as jazz drums at the Guildhall School of Music. He has performed in the BBC Proms, played around Europe with his award-winning baroque ensemble, Apollo’s Cabinet, with whom he has just released a CD, and he also plays with blues legend, Dana Gillespie, with whom he was recently in the US for some gigs. He plays regularly around London with many other musicians at venues including the 606 Jazz Club, Ronnie Scott’s and the Bull’s Head. Daniel cycles everywhere in London, and loves travelling.
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Sophia Prodanova - Violin
Sophia Prodanova is a London - based Bulgarian violinist, graduate of the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
She is the 3rd Prize winner of the International Bach Competition in Leipzig (2022) and this year became a Jumpstart Jr Foundation artist - receiving a 1596 Brothers Amati violin, from their Sparrey Collection for a period of 3 years.Sophia enjoys working with a wide variety of ensembles internationally - Arcangelo (Jonathan Cohen), Pygmalion (Raphael Pichon), Ensemble Masques (Olivier Fortin), Helsinki Baroque (Aapo Häkkinen), Irish Baroque Orchestra (Peter Whelan), The English Concert (Harry Bickett/Kristian Bezuidenhout), Dunedin Consort (John Butt), Benedetti Baroque Orchestra (Nicola Benedetti), Balthasar Neumann Ensemble (Thomas Hengelbrock), Il Pomo d’Oro (Maxim Emelyanychev), Mozartists (Ian Page). In 2022 she appeared as a guest principal 1st violin with Ensemble Pygmalion for their large-scale project “Chemins de Bach”.
Sophia feels indebted to Sophie Gent and Amandine Beyer for the mentorship she has been receiving from them over the last year.
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David Lopez Ibanez - Violin
In 2017 David obtained a First Class Distinction for his Bachelors Degree at the Royal College of Music He has performed all around Europe as a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Jungendorchester. In 2017 He had the privilege of leading the RCM Symphony Orchestra at a concert for Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace. David is the recipient of a Fellowship Programme with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund. He also had the support of the Countess of Munster Trust and the Leverhulme Arts Fund towards his Masters Degree. In 2018 he was awarded the BBC Symphony Orchestra Pathway Scheme and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe Academy. Since October 2018 he plays on a violin made by Lorenzo Carcassi in Florence in 1740.
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Sarah Small - Viola da Gamba
Sarah is a freelance viola da gamba player and holds a Masters with Distinction from the Royal College of Music, having studied there with Reiko Ichise and in Bremen with Hille Perl. She performs with various ensembles across the UK and Europe including multi award-winning ensemble Fretwork, Charivari Agréable, and the Gesualdo Six. As well as making appearances on radio stations such as BBC Radio 3 and Radio France, Sarah has performed in world-class venues such as The Globe Theatre, St Mark’s Basilica, and Buckingham Palace.
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Collin Shay - Harpsichord, Organ
Collin Shay is a countertenor and multi-instrumentalist based in London. They have performed at the Royal Opera, Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, and Eurovision. Recent opera engagements have taken them to Festival Aix-en-Provence, Bregenzer Festspiele, the Concertgebouw, and the Southbank Centre. They hold a bachelor's degree from McGill University, and also studied at The Juilliard School and The Guildhall School of Music.
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Mathis Wolfer - Harpsichord, Recorder
Recorder player and harpsichordist Mathis Wolfer performs in Germany and abroad and has appeared with various ensembles at Grafenegg Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Musikfest Bremen, Musikfestspiele Potsdam, Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, Oude Muziek Fringe Festival and in the Pierre Boulez Saal. He has performed as a soloist with ensembles such as the Capricornus Consort Basel, La Risonanza Barockorchester and the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra.
He has won prizes at national and international competitions, including the La Risonanza EMSA Award 2021 and first prizes at the Open Recorder Days Amsterdam 2019 as well as the second prize at the prestigious "MOECK/SRP solo recorder competition" and prizes at the van Wassenaer Competition Utrecht and from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
Mathis Wolfer is currently studying recorder and harpsichord at the Freiburg University of Music with Prof. Stefan Temmingh, Prof. Jean-Christophe Dijoux and Michael Behringer. He received further musical inspiration in courses with Alfredo Bernadini, Francesco Corti, Michael Form, Dan Laurin, Dorothee Oberlinger, Hille Perl, Antonio Politano, Maurice Steger, Peter van Heyghen and others.
www.mathiswolfer.com