Dutch cellist Jobine Siekman is quickly building her career as an exceptional chamber musician and soloist. She has won prizes both as a soloist (National Cello Competition of Cellobiennale Amsterdam 2016) and with the Alkyona Quartet and the Chloé Trio.
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Kaapo Ijas (b.1988) is the Mills Williams Junior Fellow in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music. He has been fiercely interested in composing, performance, drama, group dynamics and the orchestra itself for all his life.
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Ana Teresa de Braga e Alves started learning the viola in Portugal at the age of 5 including high school with distinction Academic, Music and Artistic Merit Awards in 2012. Currently she is in the 1st year of the Masters in Performance Degree at the Royal College of Music as an RCM Barry Shaw Scholar, holder of a Help Musicians UK Postgraduate Award and St Marylebone Education Foundation Scholarship under the supervision of Andriy Viytovych.
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Praised for his “exceptional musicianship and emotive playing”, Jonathan Radford is one of the leading classical saxophonists of his generation. In high demand internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, Jonathan is a Vandoren Paris Artist and Henri Selmer Paris Saxophone Artist.
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Andrew Yiangou is a concert pianist from London. He was recently awarded the prestigious Mills Williams Junior Fellowship at the Royal College of Music for his studies on the Artist Diploma Course 2016/17. At the Royal College of Music, he has been working with Professors Gordon Fergus-Thompson, Vanessa Latarche and Norma Fisher where he completed his Bachelor of Music and Masters of Music with Distinction.
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British-Polish violinist Magdalena Loth-Hill learned locally in Cumbria before accepting a place at Chetham’s School of Music to study with Jan Repko. She continued her studies at the Royal College of Music, London, with Itzhak Rashkovsky and Laura Samuel and later took up baroque violin with Adrian Butterfield and Lucy Russell.
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