Nick is an enthusiastic member of CoMA and a bass clarinet player. Before retirement, he was founder and senior partner of a large NHS practice for 23 years, during which time he ran the practice finances and managed its growth from zero to over 12,000 patients. He is honorary treasurer of London CoMA.

Hollie is a composer, researcher and curator of musical happenings in the UK and overseas. She is currently working towards a fully funded PhD in composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance as the first recipient of the Trinity Laban RDP Scholarship. Her thesis explores the arena, ensemble and action spaces of music, through composition.

Clare performs regularly as a soloist and ensemble pianist, and enjoys presenting unconventional programmes. She performs in several chamber groups including Ret Frem and Bay's Leap, and has been a staff accompanist at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for Jane Manning's contemporary song classes. She also provides online marketing services to promote contemporary music and was for three years a publicity consultant for Prima Facie Records.

Composer Will Handysides is interested in meditative, non-climactic forms. His music unfolds slowly and is contemplative, focussing on stasis and hypnotic repetition. Notable collaborators include Composers Ensemble, Bit20 Ensemble, Onyx Brass, Trondheim Sinfonietta, and Tête-À-Tête; conductors Gerry Cornelius and Nicholas Cleobury; and venues St. John's Smith Square, Grieghallen and Riverside Studios.

Ailie Robertson is a multi-award winning composer, performer and creative curator whose work crosses the boundaries of traditional and contemporary music. Winner of The Sofia International Composition Competition, the SCO iCompose Prize, and 2nd in the Oslo Grieg Competition, Ailie has received commissions, awards and residences from Creative Scotland, Enterprise Music Scotland, the CCA, Culture Ireland, Celtic Connections,EIFF, and CALQ Montreal. She is widely regarded as one of Scotland’s leading young traditional musicians. A five-time National Mod Gold Medalist and a BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year finalist, Ailie also won first prize at the inaugural London Harp Competition, was judged best overall musician at the Edinburgh Competition Festival and won the St Albans New Roots award

Being composer, arranger, contemporary violist and teacher, Nathanael Gubler approaches music from many, contrasting angles. He has performed in the National Youth Orchestra of Switzerland and countless chamber music ensembles. At the Royal College of Music, he studied with Dai Fujikura and Jonathan Cole and was awarded with a Clifton Parker Award and the Elgar Memorial Prize. His works have been performed in Switzerland, Canada, Thailand, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Brazil. Current projects include a piece for chamber ensemble for the Lucerne Festival, a composition for three high voices as well as an arrangement of Debussy’s Cello Sonata (for cello and strings). As a performer, Nathanael recently appeared at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Listenpony is a concert series, commissioning body and record label for new and old and pop music. It is run by three composers, who programme classical music, both new and old, alongside a variety of other genres including folk, jazz and pop. Concerts take place in beautiful and unusual venues, and each event, in collaboration with different artists, presents a diverse collection of music broken up into 20-minute sets. Each of their collaborators bring their own particular repertoire as well as the new music commissioned for them. Their unique atmosphere allows the audience to experience a close connection with the music, as well as with the musicians themselves.

Born in Yorkshire in 1977, the pianist Matthew Schellhorn studied in Manchester and Cambridge. His teachers included Peter Hill and Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen. He has given recitals in many major venues throughout the UK, including Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room. He is a regular guest soloist at international festivals and has performed live on numerous international radio stations.