Aisling Ennis is a highly regarded harpist and creative thinker who enjoys a successful, self-directed portfolio career. She is a former student of the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Aisling is known for her evocative playing across a broad spectrum of genres.

Recent highlights include solo performances with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, her solo recital tour 'Fairy Harp, Ceol Sí', her adaptation of Mozart's Magic Flute for narrator, flute, viola, harp and soprano for the West Wicklow Chamber Music Festival, collaborating with Peter Power of Sparsile Collective on 'After Light: These Dark Citizens', and the release of her debut solo album of compositions in 2023. Aisling was a 2022 member of the Wicklow Artists Panel and continues to work to support and enrich the arts in her beloved home county.

Aisling performs on a Horngacher concert harp, Tomás Mac Uileagóid 'Eala' Irish harps and Camac electric harps. Aisling's work is supported by Arts Council Ireland, Wicklow County Council, Creative Ireland and the Department for Art, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

Barry Douglas has established a major international career since winning the Gold Medal at the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition, Moscow. As Artistic Director of Camerata Ireland, the only all-Ireland orchestra and the Clandeboye Festival, he continues to celebrate his Irish heritage whilst also maintaining a busy international touring schedule.

In recent seasons he has performed with a list of orchestras that includes the London Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Moscow State Symphony, Russian National, Vancouver and Colorado Symphonies, and the Halle Orchestra. A highly sought-after recitalist and chamber musician, Barry has given performances across the globe from Royal Albert Hall, Barbican and Wigmore Hall and the Verbier Festival to the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, Grand Theatre in Shanghai and other cities in China.

Barry is an exclusive Chandos recording artist. He recently completed a six-album recording of the full works for solo piano of Brahms. International Record Review wrote that “this is indeed Brahms playing of the utmost integrity and authority... this cycle looks set to become a benchmark version”. His current recording projects focus on the solo piano works of Schubert and Tchaikovsky. Also with Chandos, Barry is exploring Irish folk music through his own arrangements, working with ancient melodies through to pieces by contemporary song writers.

In January 2021, Barry Douglas was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to music and community relations in the 2021 New Year Honours List. He previously received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year’s Honours List for services to music.

David Adams studied organ and harpsichord in Dublin, Freiburg and Amsterdam, winning prizes at international competitions in Speyer, Lüneburg, Bruges and Dublin. Since his début recital at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, at the age of 16, he has performed throughout Ireland, the UK and Europe, and in the US. He is much in demand as an ensemble player in the fields of Early and contemporary music and has premiered many new works, including numerous compositions written specially for him.

In addition to solo CDs recorded on the organs of Trinity College and the National Concert Hall in Dublin, he has recorded for Naxos, Black Box and Wergo. David has taught at conservatories in Freiburg, Berlin and The Hague, and now lectures in organ and harpsichord at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, where he is also Head of the Early Music Dept. In 2007 he was awarded a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam for his work on Max Reger and Karl Straube.

Ed Creedon enjoys a varied career as a viola player, performing chamber music in recitals and as an orchestral musician. Recent performances include the National Concert Hall Chamber Music Gathering, tours throughout Ireland with the Lir String Quartet, tours to Finland, France, Spain and India with Camerata Ireland as well as solo performances with Camerata Ireland and Barry Douglas.

Since 2016, he has performed regularly with The Vanbrugh. Other chamber music highlights include appearances with the Ficino Ensemble in Dublin, the Piatti Quartet in the U.K., at the Ortús Festival in Cork, and repeat invitations to the Clandeboye Festival in Northern Ireland and the Killaloe Music Festival, Ireland. Recent projects include a national tour with the Solas Quartet, recording an album of contemporary chamber music works with Crash Ensemble and performances in Ireland and Scotland with the Irish Chamber Orchestra.

Born in the US and raised in Finland, Elina Vähälä made her orchestral debut with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra at the age of twelve and was later chosen by Osmo Vänskä as the orchestra’s ‘Young Master Soloist’. She appears regularly with Finnish orchestras, as well as being a guest of countless high-profile orchestras such as Houston Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Dortmund Philharmoniker and Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg. She has toured extensively in the UK, Finland, Germany, China, Korea and South America. She enjoys fruitful working partnerships with many leading conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Carlos Kalmar, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Okko Kamu, Jakub Hrůša, Daniela Musca, Alexander Liebreich, and Michał Nesterowicz.

In 2023, Elina became Artistic Director of the Naantali Music Festival. Her chamber festival performances include the Chiemgauer Festival in Germany, Storioni Festival in Eindhoven, Netherlands, the Naantali, Kuhmo and Korsholm festivals in Finland, the Clandeboye Festival and the Seoul International Chamber Festival. BIS released her recording of Kalevi Aho’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Kymi Sinfonietta and Olari Elts. Befitting her Finnish roots, she has premiered many chamber works and violin concertos by Finnish composers, including those by Magnus Lindberg and Jaakko Kuusisto, and is one of very few to perform the Sibelius concerto in its early version. Previously professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, Germany, she has been professor at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna since September 2019. She performs with a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin made in 1780.

Liam Duffy was born in Salford and studied at Chetham’s School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music, where he gained a BA(Mus) and two PPRNCM Professional Performance diplomas. 

He started working professionally at the age of 18 with the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester. Since then, Liam has continued to work with all major UK and Irish orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and BBC Concert Orchestras, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also performed on many film and TV soundtracks. 

He lives in Dublin with his wife and young son.

Lidia Jewloszewicz-Clarke is an accomplished Polish violinist, renowned for her versatile performances and contributions to the classical music scene in Ireland. A resident of Ireland, Lidia has gained recognition both as a soloist and as a chamber and orchestral musician. Upon moving to Ireland she won the Hibernian Orchestra Concerto Competition, leading to a celebrated solo performance of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 at the RDS in Dublin. Lidia's accolades include the prestigious Gdansk Mozart Prize in 2004, which propelled her to tour with the Gdańsk Camerata as a soloist. She has also received numerous scholarships, including from the University of Music in Luzern and the President of Gdańsk for her exceptional contributions to music and culture. Most recently, Lidia was awarded the Arts Council Ireland Agility Award in 2022, and in 2023, she was the Musician in Residence at the Lexicon in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, supported by Music Network.

As a chamber musician, Lidia is a key member of Musici Ireland and a founding member of the Banbha String Quartet, with whom she regularly tours Ireland, delivering numerous live and radio performances. Her previous chamber work includes founding the Lupus Piano Trio, with which she earned recognition at international competitions and festivals.

In the orchestral realm, Lidia is a member of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and frequently serves as co-leader for esteemed ensembles such as Camerata Ireland, the Irish National Opera and Wexford Opera. Her collaborations have taken her to prestigious venues and festivals across Asia and Europe, including the Concertgebow in Amsterdam and the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall.

In addition to her classical pursuits, Lidia has shown a keen interest in contemporary music, leading performances such as the Irish premiere of Andrew Synnott's Dubliners and the European premiere of Luigi Nono’s Prometeo.

Marc Coppey is considered to be one of the world’s leading cellists. A protégé of Lord Yehudi Menuhin and Mstislav Rostropovich, Coppey first shot to international acclaim at the age of 18, winning First Prize and ‘Prize for the Best Bach Performance’ at the prestigious Leipzig Bach Competition (1988). Since then, Coppey has carved out an impressive solo career to date, working regularly with many of the world’s finest orchestras and conductors – including, amongst others, Alain Altinoglu, Lionel Bringuier, Lawrence Foster, Alan Gilbert, Kirill Karabits, Emmanuel Krivine, John Nelson, Pascal Rophé, Yan Pascal Tortelier, and Yutaka Sado. He was made Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Cultural Ministry in 2014. He has given the world premieres of cello concerti by such celebrated composers as Jacques Lenot, Marc Monnet, Eric Tanguy, and the French premieres of works by Elliott Carter, Mantovani, and Erkki-Sven Tüür.

Recent and forthcoming highlights include performing as soloist with Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse/Lio Kuokman, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France/Kazushi Ono, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg/John Nelson, and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra/Lawrence Foster. 2021 marked Coppey’s first year as Artist-in-Residence with the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música. Coppey is a Professor at the Conservatore National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and is regularly invited to give masterclasses across Europe, Asia, and both North & South America. Since October 2020, he is the Artistic Director of the Saline Royale Academy d’Arc-et-Senans in France. Marc performs on a cello by Matteo Gofriller (Venice, 1711), known as the ‘Van Wilgenburg’, and resides in Paris.

Martin Johnson studied at the Royal College of Music under the direction of Anna Shuttleworth, a former student of Pablo Casals, Andrew Shulman (Principal Cello of the Philharmonia Orchestra) and British soloist Alexander Baillie. In 2000, he joined the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, made his debut as soloist with them in 2008 and has been their Section Leader for two decades. In 2006, Martin was invited to become a lifetime member of the World Philharmonic Orchestra and is also a regular Guest Principal with the major orchestras in Ireland and the UK.

Under the direction of conductors Sir Kenneth Montgomery, Kees Bakels, Alan Buribayev, Douglas Boyd, Finnegan Downie-Dear, George Jackson, Gavin Maloney and Robert Houlihan, live solo broadcasts have included concerti by Frank Corcoran (for lyricFM CD154, 2017), Fauré (NAXOS), Gráinne Mulvey, Anne-Marie O’Farrell, Bloch, Elgar, Robert Schumann, Sir John Tavener, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Lalo, Saint-Saëns, Sir Michael Tippett, Delius, Corelli, Ibert, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and notably Richard Strauss’s tone poem ‘Don Quixote’ with the RTÉ NSO and Maestro Pascal Rophé at the National Concert Hall.

Martin is a UCD Arts and Humanities Faculty Creative Fellow, Countess of Munster Scholar, IT President’s Prize-winner and has been supported by the Musical Instruments Loan Fund and Music Network’s Music Capital Scheme. He plays a cello by Thomas Kennedy of London c.1810 and bow made by legendary archetier Sartory for the World Exhibition of Paris 1908. A new Cello Concerto by Northern Irish composer Anselm McDonnell (LSO Composer in Residence) has recently been commissioned for Martin by the NSO/NCH and will be premiered in late 2025.

Rowel Friers, born 2002 in Northern Ireland, embarked on his musical journey on a toy keyboard at 18 months. Beginning piano tuition at the age of five, he gave his first public recital that same year.

Rowel made his New York Debut in Carnegie Hall as a New York Concerti Sinfonietta International Shining Star in 2017. He has won many competitions, including the Belgian Cesar Franck International in 2018 and the Gillian Smith Cup for Pianoforte in RIAM in 2019. He became the Rotary Northern Ireland Young Musician of the Year 2019, won the Feis Ceoil ‘Patricia Read’ Competition that same year, was awarded 2nd Prize at the Italian Livorno International in 2020 and won the Ursula Uí Chuinneagáin Bursary and the Maura Teissier Scholarship.

He was awarded the Charles J. Brennan Prize and McCullough Bursary at the prestigious 2022 Dublin International Piano Competition, reached the semi-finals of the 2022 Dudley International Piano Competition, won the Audience Prize in the 2023 Madrid International Piano Competition and was awarded the Irish Freemasons Young Musician of the Year 2023. Most recently, Rowel won the Feis Ceoil’s prestigious Morris Grant Bursary.

Rowel’s concerto debut with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra at the National Concert Hall in August 2023 was met with a standing ovation, as was his performance with the National Symphony Orchestra in the National Concert Hall. Rowel is currently studying for his Bachelor of Music degree at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin with Professor Réamonn Keary.