Penelope Turner has performed extensively as a soloist and in small ensembles, singing both early music, and modern and contemporary music. Since 2013, she has performed various programmes of music by Kurt Weill, in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK. In 2018, together with her group Kurt and the Sophisticated Lady, she recorded the CD “Weill Times – a Black Tango”. For more information see www.penelopeturner.com/kurt-and-the-sophisticated-lady/. Penelope began her singing career as a Choral Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge and finished her musical training with a specialization in early music at the Brabants Conservatory in the Netherlands. Wearing her early music hat, she won first prize at the Belgian International Young Artists’ Presentation for early music with the three-voice ensemble Trigon in 1998. In 2020, she began composing when she started her “Hildegard Revisited” project at the beginning of the COVID pandemic. This ongoing project has as its object to record and revisit all 77 of Hildegard von Bingen’s liturgical chants. The project is available on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/projecthildegard) and via www.penelopeturner.com/project-hildegard/ After graduating in music from Newnham College, Cambridge, Helen spent two years at the RCM, subsequently winning a French Government Scholarship to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. On her return to London, she developed a busy freelance career as keyboard player with London orchestras, principally the BBC and Philharmonia. With the Britten Sinfonia she also played a solo role in such works as Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano & Wind, Britten’s “Young Apollo” and Gershwin’s “ I Got Rhythm” Variations. Her virtuoso one-woman show, Rags to Riches, has taken her from the Edinburgh Festival to Italy and New York, whilst, as a duo partner, she has been invited to perform in venues as diverse as Princeton University ( with violinist sister Marcia) and the Caribbean ( with flautist Nancy Ruffer). On her return to Kent in 2010, Helen was invited to join the Kentish Piano Trio. Since then, she has been actively pursuing her first-love, chamber music , with groups such as the Orsay Piano Quartet and the Ringlemere Ensemble.

Read about Helen and Alan: After graduating in music from Newnham College, Cambridge, Helen spent two years at the RCM, subsequently winning a French Government Scholarship to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. On her return to London, she developed a busy freelance career as keyboard player with London orchestras, principally the BBC and Philharmonia. With the Britten Sinfonia she also played a solo role in such works as Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano & Wind, Britten’s “Young Apollo” and Gershwin’s “ I Got Rhythm” Variations. Her virtuoso one-woman show, Rags to Riches, has taken her from the Edinburgh Festival to Italy and New York, whilst, as a duo partner, she has been invited to perform in venues as diverse as Princeton University ( with violinist sister Marcia) and the Caribbean ( with flautist Nancy Ruffer). On her return to Kent in 2010, Helen was invited to join the Kentish Piano Trio. Since then, she has been actively pursuing her first-love, chamber music , with groups such as the Orsay Piano Quartet and the Ringlemere Ensemble. GIULIO CESARE - Marc Minkowski / Deutsche Grammophon “Alan Ewing’s thunderous ‘Tu sei il cor’ is an example of how Minkowski’s strongest attributes can work brilliantly: it is thrilling . . .” David Vickers / Grammophone (London) DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL - William Christie “ . . . . but the revelation is the Irishman Alan Ewing’s Osmin. He has a masterly technique.” Hugh Canning / The Sunday Times POWDER HER FACE - English National Opera “Alan Ewing, revoltingly dazzling as the Duke.” The Observer THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST - Royal Opera at the Barbican “. . . but the highlight is the brilliant idea of casting Lady Bracknell as a bass (Alan Ewing in a magnificently deadpan comic performance). Daily Express PELLEAS ET MÉLISANDE - Arcola Theatre "Alan Ewing’s Golaud prowled Minotaur-like in a cavern of misery, crucified by love . . . ." Anna Picard / The Independent “Golaud is brought to terrifying, bear-like life by Alan Ewing, who plays the character's conflicting passions with a fierce voice and a howling soul.” WhatsOnStage

Read about Walter: Born in England to Viennese parents, Walter graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, London, and continued his studies in Israel with Rami Shevelov, a former Galamian assistant who later took over Galamian’s chair at The Julliard School, and in Germany with Sandor Vegh and Michael Gaiser. Having studied towards a Master's in Violin Pedagogy at the Jerusalem Academy of Music (with Prof. Felix Andreiewsky, former assistant of Prof. Yankelewitch in Moscow) he completed his studies with Prof. Piotr Bondarenko, who had been David Oistrakh’s assistant in Moscow. After working for three years with Yehudi Menuhin’s ‘Menuhin Festival Orchestra,’ as well as with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and several contemporary music groups in Paris, he devoted himself for six years to the intensive teaching of talented children at the Rubin Conservatory of Music in Jerusalem. Many of his students there went on to become professional violinists and violists working as orchestral players and as chamber musicians. His love for 17th and 18th century music brought him to the study of 'authentic' performance practice on period instruments, and this has been his passion ever since. Walter is internationally recognised as a leading Baroque violinist, teacher, leader and conductor. He is Professor of Baroque Violin and Viola in the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. For some twenty years he has been teaching and directing projects in Havana: his work in Cuba is now sponsored by The Mozarteum Trust. Walter has made countless recordings with orchestras in Europe and the UK. A muchtraveled recitalist, he has recorded the Recreations of Leclair for Addes, France and Sonatas by Mondonville for Meridian, a CD that was awarded the ‘Choc’ label by the French CD magazine Diapason. In 1999 he founded Cordaria, whose highly acclaimed solo CDs on the Signum label are of Vivaldi Violin Sonatas Op 2, the Biber Mystery Sonatas, and "Un alma innamorata", a collection of cantatas for voice, violin obbligato and continuo. He has led and directed many baroque orchestras over the years both in the UK and abroad. He led The Orchestra of The Sixteen for ten years and was a Principal of The English Concert for nearly thirty years; with them and with the English Concert Chamber Group he toured and recorded extensively, frequently appearing as a soloist. Recent solo appearances include the complete Sonatas with harpsichord by Bach in the Bach House in Eisenach and at the Jerusalem Bach Festival. Walter has worked with Symphony Orchestras as a conductor and director in programmes of Baroque Music on modern instruments. The most recent projects of this kind have been with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra of the Lyceum Mozartiana in Havana and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, where he conducted the complete Bach Orchestral Suites in a series of three concerts. In 2018 he conducted Cosi fan Tutte in a staged production in Rotterdam and in 2019 he directed a three-day workshop with members of The Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra in Tromsø, Norway. Future projects include courses in Norway, Latvia and Spain. Walter Reiter is the author of ‘The Baroque Violin & Viola – a Fifty Lesson Course’ published in 2020 by Oxford University Press. His Baroque Violin Etude book ‘Gradus ad Parnassum’ was published by International Music Publishers and a four-volume pedagogic ‘Baroque Violin Anthology’ is being published by Schott. He has also written a novel, ‘Healing by Deceit, The Story of Alan Palladino,’ published in 2015.

Read more about Max: Max Mostovetski was born in Leipzig, Germany, in 2001. He received his earliest musical inspirations from his mother, who is also a musician. Max began his piano studies at the age of five at the "Johann Sebastian Bach" Music School in Leipzig, where Kateryna Blyum, his teacher for 14 years, opened up the world of classical music to him. During this period he performed in numerous concerts and participated in various competitions, such as the “National Bach Competition” in Köthen (first prize); the "Carl-Schroeder Piano Competition” (first prize); the “German National Youth Music Competition” in the chamber music category, in Hamburg (first prize); and the chamber music competition “enviaM” (second prize). He also successfully participated in the “Robert Schumann Youth Piano Competition” (third prize); the “Kiwanis Piano Competition” (first prize); "Zukunftsklang Award" (third prize); the "Euregio Piano Award" (special prize for the best interpretation of a classical sonata) and has been awarded multiple prizes from both the Chopin and the Mendelssohn Foundations in Leipzig. Among Max's most notable achievements was taking first prize at the “Grotrian Steinweg International Piano Competition”, held in Braunschweig, first prize with the highest score at the “German National Youth Music Competition” in the category piano solo and second prize at the “International Carl Maria von Weber Piano Competition" in Dresden. He was also a finalist and Yamaha Prize winner at the "International J.S.Bach Competition" in Saarbrücken. Max has additionally been a participant or semifinalist in several renowned international competitions abroad, including the "Maria Canals Piano Competition" in Barcelona, "Hastings International Piano Competition", "Santa Cecilia Piano Competition" in Porto and the "Ricard Viñes Piano Competition" in Lleida.