Jeni Melia has studied with Mary Bainbridge and Ruth Holton, and has participated in masterclasses with Emma Kirkby, with whom she has studied privately. She sings with the Concord Singers and has performed solos in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Faure's Requiem, Pergolesi's Salve Regina, Mozart's Laudate Dominum, Vivaldi's Gloria, Arne's Shakespeare songs, Handel's Messiah, and a song cycle, Love's Bitter-Sweet, specially composed for her by Paul Edwards.

She has been recorded performing the music of Paul Edwards, on the CD No Small Wonder (Lammas Records), and has released four CDs, of lute songs and folk songs, "The Last of Old England"; "The Lost Art of Wooing"; and "Sister Awake!"; (all of which are available on Magnatune) and Land of Lost Content featuring songs for voice and violin by Holst and Vaughan Williams.

Recent engagements to date have included recitals at The Barns in Carlton, the Leicester, Lincoln, Richmond, and Brighton Early Music Festivals, the King of Hearts centre in Norwich, Hengrave Hall in Suffolk and the Ateneu Comercial do Porto, Portugal, the Langholm and Eskdale Arts Festival, the Ripon Music Festival, the Krakow Lute Festival, Le Puy Notre Dame (Loire valley), at the Heriot-Watt concert Society, Ediburgh, and at the Lute Society (where Jeni has also performed with the noted lutenists Chris Wilson and Nigel North). With accompanist Chris Goodwin, she has recently featured on the Radio 3 In Tune programme.

Chris Goodwin took up the lute at the age of 19, and for the last 13 years has been Secretary of the Lute Society, and editor of The Lute; he has also edited and published collections of lute songs from original manuscript sources.

Has appeared on the Radio 3 In Tune programme, on the Radio 4 Today programme, and as a musician in the feature film Shakespeare in Love, in Reeves' Rogues: Blackbeard on the Discovery Channel, in ITV's Have I been here before? and has played briefly on BBC's The Weakest Link, Channel 4's Stephen Hawking and the Theory of Everything, Big Brother and University Challenge Professionals.

He has played on three CDs with the group Passamezzo, and four with the soprano Jeni Melia. He has sung in numerous choirs from childhood and played the lute and sung in a number of ensembles, including the folk/early music fusion group Andwella, and The Giltspur Singers. He is a founder member of English Ayres.

Recent engagements include providing incidental music for the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Henry VIII at Stratford-on-Avon, giving the opening recital and lecture in the first Krakow Lute Festival, and playing at private functions for Ringo Starr, for the Home Secretary, John Reid, and for Sir Jock Stirrup, Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Helen Price studied music at Kings College London and then gained a Masters in Musicology at Royal Holloway where she studied female singers in Restoration London.

Helen combines a career in arts sponsorship with singing and conducting. She has conducted numerous productions with Grosvenor Light Opera and is Musical Director of a chamber choir, The Marble Hill Singers, in Twickenham.

In 1998 Helen founded Contrafactum, a chamber choir for young talented singers and with them has performed at festivals and cathedral services across the UK including Chelsmford, Guildford and Coventry. As a singer, Helen is a member of the professional choir of St James' Spanish Place, Marylebone, and of the Renaissance Singers, one of the UK's longest established choirs specialising in early music.

Alison Kinder read music at Oxford and then studied viol with Alison Crum at Trinity College of Music, being awarded the college's Silver Medal for Early Music Studies.

She is a founder member of the ensemble Passamezzo with whom she performs regularly on viols and recorders, and is a member of Chelys consort of viols. Alison is a keen teacher both privately and at a number of Early Music summer schools and courses, and she directs the Early Music for Youth Summer School.

Alison Price performs regularly with chamber and church choirs around London, most recently the Renaissance Singers and the Orlando Chamber Choir. She has attended courses run by Robert Hollingworth, David Allinson and JanJoost van Elburg.

Alison read English at Jesus College, Oxford, and has an MA in Early Modern Studies from King's College, London. She works in the Old Master Paintings department of Sotheby's in London.

Arngeir Hauksson after graduating in his native Iceland, studied the classical guitar and lute with Robert Brightmore and David Miller at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, in London.

Arngeir now specialises in music from the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods on authentic plucked instruments: the gittern, lute, guitar, cittern and theorbo, but he also has been known to play the hurdy-gurdy and percussion.

He regularly plays with the ensembles The Sixteen, Ex-Cathedra, Bardos Band and Wyrewood in Britain and abroad as well as performing in productions with The English Touring Opera, Glyndbourne and The Shakepeare's Globe Theatre.

Chris Hunter has been a member of the Renaissance Singers, the country's longest established specialist early music choir, since its re-formation in 1992. With them he has performed under early music specialists such as Edward Wickham, Robert Hollingworth and David Allinson.

In the early '00s Chris performed many concerts across Germany as the bottom line of the male voice ensemble Hofkapelle. He performs regularly in London with the professional early music ensemble Musica Contexta and with them has recorded CDs of the sacred works of Arcadelt and Byrd's Great Service. He has also appeared on many classical recordings for such diverse groups as the Vasari Singers and Ealing Abbey Choir, and his session work includes feature film and TV soundtracks, and platinum-selling pop albums.

He is a member of the professional choir of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, the national musicians' church, which has resulted in many appearances on BBC TV's 'Songs of Praise', and sings with other professional church choirs across London.

Rebecca Austen-Brown is a specialist in performance on recorder and early strings, and performs throughout the UK festival network, Europe and the US, as well as recording for BBC Radio 3 and 4.

She is the driving force behind medieval/trad ensemble Bardos Band, and is one of the five members of the Fontanella recorder ensemble. She has appeared as a soloist with the Britten Sinfonia, The Orchestra of the Swan, and has recorded with I Fagiolini, and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Her interest in both improvisation and traditional music from around the world is fuelled by folk/electronic duo Wyrewood and collaborations with Horses Brawl. Rebecca teaches recorder at the Royal College of Music Junior Department, London College of Music, and Surrey University. She has given classes at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Birmingham Conservatoire, and is regularly invited as an adjudicator in the UK and in Hong Kong.

Lindsay Braga studied violin at the Royal Northern College of Music with Richard Deakin and Wen Zhou Lee.

She has gone on to do regular work over several years as a first violin with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic. She has also played with many other orchestras including the Welsh National Opera, the English National Ballet, the Goldberg Ensemble, the Halle Orchestra, English National Opera, Scottish Ballet, and the Manchester Camerata.

She has been involved with the education team of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, leading workshops in schools. Since her recent move to Devon, she also begun playing with the Ten Tors Chamber Orchestra, and she leads the Four Seasons String Quartet.

"Jeni has a voice that is pleasing confident but unassuming...there is no self-conscious attempt to seek a beautiful sound: it is there anyway but doesn't get in the way"
Early Music Review

"...they find the right, modest touch in which all the attention is drawn to the songs"
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