John Mills violin, Jeremy Isaac violin, Lydia Lowndes-Northcott viola, Bozidar Vukotic cello

For over a decade and a half, the celebrated Tippett Quartet has delighted critics and audiences alike with its animated, virtuosic performances, and its inspired and attractive programming. The quartet has performed at the BBC Proms and numerous festivals throughout the UK and abroad, and has recently toured Europe, Canada and Mexico. The quartet regularly appears at Kings Place, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre and Bridgewater Hall and frequently performs on BBC Radio 3.

Alongside a busy touring schedule, the Tippett Quartet pursues a keen interest in educational work with both schools and universities and is currently Ensemble in Residence at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University.

Chamber Domaine

Under its artistic director, Thomas Kemp, Chamber Domaine has become renowned for its virtuosity and its ambitious and distinctive programming that range from the Baroque through to the Contemporary. Chamber Domaine focuses on instrumental chamber music and song in programmes that illuminate the music of today with the music of three centuries: the ensemble brings passion and commitment to a diverse repertoire that makes music come alive whilst placing it into its cultural context.

The Gramophone recently commented: "...a wealth of timbral subtlety...utterly magical...a tremendous sense of vitality and commitment." The Guardian described a recent concert as "an extraordinary performance...with a fluency that came over brilliantly under the baton of Thomas Kemp." The Times commented "Chamber Domaine brilliantly demonstrated the thrill of young players successfully climbing Mount Everest with exhilarating bravery and expressive force." The New York Times praised the ensemble for its "intriguing programming and unabashed lushness."

Chamber Domaine have performed at many leading festivals in the UK, Europe and USA and have a highly acclaimed discography including world premiere recordings of Britten, Bliss, Part, Turnage, Gorecki and Britten. The ensemble are resident at Music@Malling.

Barrington Pheloung

Barrington Pheloung is a composer, conductor and performer of international renown. Barrington has an immense catalogue behind him that includes fifty two ballet scores for many dance companies worldwide, numerous concertos, scores for film, television, radio, theatre and new media. He is a popular phenomenon in Britaind and a man who has straddled the worlds of film and television music, the pop record industry and the concert hall with equal ease.

Born in Sydney, Australia, Pheloung took up guitar at age six and he played in blues bands through his teenage years. He moved to London at the age of 18 to study composition, conducting , double bass and guitar at the Royal College of Music and in 1977 won a place on the International Course for Professional Composers and Choreographers at Surrey University. Pheloung began laying the groundwork for a film and television career with his work on ballets and since the late 70’s has written more than 50 commissioned ballet scores for world renowned ballet and dance companies in Britain and Europe, and conducting and recording several of them including the popular works Run Like Thunder and Rite Elektrik both choreographed by Tom Jobe.

Oscar winning director and writer Anthony Mighella took a liking to Pheloungs ballet work and asked him to score one of this early plays’ “Made in Bangkok” directed by Michael Blakemore in 1986. Pheloung went on to score more than half a dozen stage plays including Arthur Miller’s After the Fall at the National and Sweet Bird of Younth also directed by Blakemore on Broadway, as well as plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Graduate adapted by Terry Johnson for the West End and Broadway. He has also scored the live show Wheel of Life which is performed by the kung-fu Shaolin Monks from China and directed by Micha Bergese.

Pheloung made his mark on the British popular consciousness when he began working in television on the popular 13 part series Boon in 1985. This led to the enormously popular detective series Inspector Morse. Pheloungs classically -styled, melancholy theme for Morse became an instant hit with the public. Other acclaimed television work for the composer includes Lewis, Red Riding Tilogy: 1983, The World of Nat King Cole, Portrait of a Marriage, Stanlry and the Women,Channel 5 News, Good-bye Cruel Work, Blood and Peaches, Mickey Love, Cinderpath, Brown Bears Wedding, Days of Majest, the Legends of Treasure Island, Mosley, The Politicians Wife, Dalziel and Pascoe and Cor Blimey.

His motion picture credits include Friendship’s Death, Truly Madly Deeply. Shopgirl, Hilary and Jackie, When did you last see your Father, Nostradarmus, Twin Dragons and The Mangler.

Barrington Pheloung recently conducted the Inspector Morse Theme at a gala concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra to a packed Royal Albert Hall. He remains an outstanding example of the marriage between the world of concert hall composition and film scoring.

Adam Mackenzie

Born in Plymouth but raised in the Highlands of Scotland, Adam Mackenzie began playing the bassoon in school, obtained a first class degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and was runner-up in the prestigious Guildhall Gold Medal Competition.

Following his return from a year at the Accademia della Scala, Milan, Adam embarked on what has become a hugely varied career. Adam is the principal bassoon of Sinfonia ViVA and English Sinfonia and plays regularly as principal bassoon with orchestras such as the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Alongside this orchestral work Adam is a diverse and adventurous soloist, performing concertos (recently Mozart’s G Major Violin Concerto arranged for bassoon), playing in hip-hop bands, improvisation ensembles, theatre groups and has just completed a tour of India with the world renowned sarod player Amjad Ali Khan.

He is fortunate to be able to combine this with his other musical passion, outreach and education work. As one of London’s busiest freelance workshop musicians and leaders, Adam works regularly with all the major London orchestral education departments. He is Director of Education for English Sinfonia and Head of Education for Brandenburg Sinfonia.

Adam is also a presenter of concerts and has narrated many classic works including Peter and the Wolf, Ogden Nash’s poems for Carnival of the Animals and Poulenc’s The Story of Barbar. In 2006, Adam spent three months acting in (and playing from memory) Stravinsky’s Soliders Tale in the Old Vic Theatre, a piece which he has also narrated often in straight performance.

Adam will be performing Peter and the Wolf again in November with London Winds in Hackney.

James Pearson

James Pearson is one of the country’s most respected musicians. His work covers all genres of music, especially contemporary music, jazz and classical. He graduated from the Guildhall School, having completed his degree and the Advanced Solo Studies Course. Whilst at college he studied with Robert Saxton, Francis Shaw, Peter Bithell and James Gibb.

James has broadcast on all the major radio and television networks. Classic FM broadcast his concert of Rachmaninoff’s 2nd piano concerto, and BBC Radio 2 broadcast his performance of the Gershwin Piano Concerto and Rhapsody in Blue. He was the pianist in the Steve Martland Band. His work as a Jazz musician has taken him all over the world. Earlier this year, the James Pearson Trio was invited to play a four night run at New York's Birland Jazz Club. His fine piano playing and arrangements can be heard on over 50 albums.

Amongst the many artists James has worked with are Dame Cleo Laine, Maria Ewing, Marian Montgomery, Petula Clark, Kevin Spacey, John Wilson, Elvin Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Joss Stone, Dave Stewart, Buddy Greco, Johnny Griffin, Joseph Horowitz, Richard Rodney Bennett, Ray Davies, Jeff Beck and Paul McCartney.

Markku Mäkinen

(b.1973) gained his MMus degree from the Solo Studies Department at the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki, Finland) in 1999, having been awarded excellent marks for his organ diploma in 1998. His organ teacher was Professor Olli Porthan. He also studied harpsichord performance under Kati Hämäläinen and completed his diploma with excellent marks in spring 2001. From 1998 to 2000 he studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory with Professor Jacques van Oortmerssen and gained his Tweede fase examination (solo diploma) “cum laude” in June 2000. He has also furthered his studies in numerous masterclasses in Finland and abroad.

Markku Mäkinen has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, the UK, Russia, Italy, Spain, Austria and Hungary and as a keyboard player with many orchestras, choirs and early music ensembles (such as Finnish Baccano and Italian Accademia Barocca Willem Hermans). In 1997 he won the third prize in the International Schnitger Organ Competition in Alkmaar (the Netherlands) and in 2002 the first prize in the Kotka International Organ Competition (Finland). Since 2002 Markku Mäkinen has taught the organ at the Sibelius Academy. He has also held master classes in Finland and abroad and as of 2007 has been the Artistic Director of the International Summer Academy of Church Music in Estonia. He has had numerous recordings and concerts broadcast on the Finnish Radio and he has recorded many solo and chamber music CDs, for instance, for labels Alba and La Bottega Discantica. Mäkinen is also the organist in the Catholic church of St. Mary in Helsinki.