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Louisa Dennehy - Flute  Holly Fawcett - Oboe Peter Sparks - Clarinet
Siona Spillett - Bassoon Alexia Cammish - French Horn Iain Farrington - Piano
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 Born in Cork, Ireland, Louisa Dennehy began her flute studies at the Cork School of Music where she graduated with First Class Honours and the Bridget Doolan Award for Highest Music Degree in Ireland. She completed a Masters Degree at the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 and was awarded the Chris Taylor Memorial Prize for Outstanding Flautist. She has won all the major flute competitions in Ireland including the Wind Class of the RTE Millennium Musician of the Future Competition. She was also a winner in the Millennium Yamaha International Music Scholarships.
Louisa has considerable experience as concerto soloist with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the Irish Chamber Orchestra and the RTE Concert Orchestra, with whom she has recorded Franz Doppler's Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise. She has also performed Mozart's Flute Concerto in D Major with the European Union Chamber Orchestra in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Ibert's Flute Concerto with Southbank Sinfonia in London and Italy, and Henk Bading's Flute Concerto with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra in Pittsburgh and New York, USA.
As an orchestral musician, she has a busy and varied freelance career both in the UK and Ireland, and has recently had trials for the position of Principal Flute with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and the Orchestra of English National Ballet.
As a chamber musician, Louisa performs regularly with the Vanbrugh and Coull string quartets, and the Crawford Piano Trio. She also performs at P&O Music Festivals at Sea hosted by Richard Baker and Humphrey Burton. She has recorded for BBC TV and Radio 3 and recently released her debut solo CD Idylle with pianist Morten Mogensen for Classico Records.
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 Holly Fawcett attended Chetham's School of Music in Manchester before reading Music at Clare College, Cambridge University, and in 2000 she graduated with First Class Honours. She continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the Leila Bull Oboe Prize, and then with Maurice Bourgue at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, where in June 2005 she was awarded a diplôme de soliste with distinction.
In the same year, Holly won First Prize and the EUCO Concerto Prize at the Barbirolli International Oboe Competition. She gave her prizewinner's recital at the Wigmore Hall in November 2006. Her success has also led to invitations to perform on BBC Radio 3's In Tune programme and in the Leicester International Music Festival, where her playing was described as "dazzling" (Leicester Mercury).
Holly currently holds the position of second oboe and cor anglais with the Zürich Opera Orchestra and is a regular guest player with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. She has been on trial with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and played with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester.
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 Born in Bangor, North Wales, Peter Sparks studied at the Royal Northern College of Music Junior Department and read music at Cambridge University studying with Dame Thea King. He subsequently studied at the Royal Academy of Music, winning the Geoffrey Hawkes Clarinet and Harold Craxton Chamber Music competitions. He was also principal clarinet of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
As a soloist, he has twice reached the Finals of the Royal Over-Seas League competition, performed at Cheltenham International Music Festival and in the Park Lane Group Composer's Forum at the South Bank. In 2001, he was privileged to represent the RAM at the late Frederick Thurston's Centenary Concert, where his playing was described as "brilliant" (The Clarinet magazine). As a concerto soloist, he has performed Copland Clarinet Concerto in St. James's Church, Piccadilly; Elizabeth Maconchy Clarinet Concertino in Norwich and London; John Adams Gnarly Buttons, under Stephen Cleobury; the world première of Peter Wiegold's bass clarinet concerto, New York, with Southbank Sinfonia; Weber Concerto No. 1 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; and Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the English Symphony Orchestra.
Peter performs with the Farrington Ensemble, London Winds, Nash Ensemble and London Sinfonietta in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall (Proms 2006), Purcell Room and the Queen Elizabeth Hall. He has broadcast on BBC TV, Radio 3, ITV, and has recorded for Naxos, Black Box Records and has recently completed Walton's Façade with 'Kit and the Widow'.
Peter has worked with the Philharmonia, Bournemouth and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestras, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and as principal clarinet, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Concert Orchestra and English Symphony Orchestra.
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 Siona Spillett studied at Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music. As an orchestral player, she has freelanced with numerous orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic and English Chamber Orchestras, London Sinfonietta, Halle and European Union Chamber Orchestra. She was recently on trial with the Ulster Orchestra, and was formerly co-principal bassoon in Southbank Sinfonia. Siona is also a keen early instrument player and won the Noble House Early Music prize at the Academy. She has worked under Sir Simon Rattle with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, with whom she has performed in the proms and at Glyndebourne. As a soloist, Siona has performed several concertos, including the Weber Concerto with Southbank Sinfonia and the Strauss Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon at the Concert Hall at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Siona studied bassoon at the Royal Northern Junior College before taking up a University Instrumental Award place at Cambridge. Having been a recipient of her college's highest musical award (London Girton Association Award) she then took up a scholarship to study bassoon at the Academy under John Orford and Gareth Newman. There, she was supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Newby and William Gibbs Trusts and the Clothworkers' Foundation.
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 Alexia Cammish began her horn studies with Richard Kennedy and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for two years before she won a gap year scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studied with Jeff Bryant. Alexia continued her studies reading music at Newnham College, Cambridge (1997-2000) where she was an instrumental award holder and principal horn of Cambridge University Symphony and Chamber Orchestras.
Since completing her education, with a one year postgraduate masters course at the GSMD, Alexia has been freelancing and works with orchestras including: the BBC Symphony Orchestra; BBC Concert Orchestra; BBC National Orchestra of Wales; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden; English National Opera; English National Ballet; Britten Sinfonia; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; and the Philharmonia. She is currently playing with English National Opera as they work through a two year project initially perfoming each of Wagner's four operas which comprise Der Ring Des Nibelungen separately, and culminating in performances as full 'cycles' in 2005. A keen chamber musician too, Alexia has given a chamber recital with the wind soloists of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and particularly enjoys her work with the Academy of St.Martin in the Fields with whom she has toured the USA, Greece, Spain, Germany and Italy under the direction of Sir Neville Marriner, Murray Perahia KBE and Joshua Bell.
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 Iain Farrington has an exceptionally busy and diverse career as a pianist, organist, composer and arranger. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music and St John's College, Cambridge University.
Iain has performed as a solo pianist, accompanist, chamber musician and organist at the major venues in the UK, including the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, the Proms 2005 and 2004, the Royal Opera House, and abroad in South Africa, Japan, Jordan and across Europe. He has worked with some of the country's leading musicians, including John Mark Ainsley, Lesley Garrett, the Royal Ballet, the BBC Singers, the London Philharmonic Choir, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Colin Davis.
As a creative musician, Iain has arranged over one hundred works from Mozart to Gershwin, and his compositions have been performed in New Zealand, Sweden, and across the UK.
www.iainfarrington.com
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