Dublin-born Aoife Nic Athlaoich enjoys a versatile musical career, dividing her time between both modern and Baroque cello. Since moving back to Ireland in 2013 Aoife joined the Irish Chamber Orchestra and has made solo and chamber music debuts at some Ireland's leading festivals including Galway Early Music Festival, Ardee baroque Festival and the East Cork Early Music Festival. Aoife is a member of the highly acclaimed Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique with whom she has toured the USA and Europe as well as performing at the BBC Proms. Aoife has performed with the orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, la Serenissima, the avison ensemble, Irish baroque orchestra, Scottish chamber orchestra, classical opera company and was a member of the London Mozart Players from 2010-2013. Aoife teaches cello at the Cork school of music, the University of Limerick, and at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin.

Dublin-born clarinetist, Carol McGonnell, is known for the expressive power of her playing of standard repertoire while also enjoying acclaim for her fearless exploration of cutting-edge developments in new music. Carol is a founding member of the Argento Chamber Ensemble. She has been involved in the commissioning of over 100 new works, ranging from solo pieces to clarinet concerti. Carol has been broadcast on RTE, Lyric FM, BBC, WQXR, and NPR  awaiting the release of her latest CD including a new concerto by Phillipe Hurel. Carol spent two years in residence with Trio Ariadne at the Green Music Center in Sonoma and she has been on the chamber music faculty of the American Academy at Fontainebleau and the Aaron Copland School of Music of CUNY. She is auxiliary faculty for contrabass clarinet at the Juilliard School in NYC.

Christian Elliott has performed as soloist and chamber musician at many of the world's most prestigious venues and music festivals, including the Lucerne Festival, Carnegie Hall, the Wigmore Hall, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Vienna Musikverein, and Berlin Konzerthaus. Christian joined the Zehetmair Quartet in March 2014. He was appointed Principal Cellist of the Irish Chamber Orchestra in 2016, with whom he has appeared as soloist and director. He is also cellist of the Phoenix Piano Trio, whose latest disc entitled “The Leipzig Circle” has met with critical acclaim. As a composer, Christian premiered his own string sextet composition at the Wigmore Hall in July 2012. Other commissions include a work for the Francoise-Green Piano Duo and a solo viola work for Ruth Killius. During the past two years, Christian arranged and multi-track recorded works of all genres from the 16th to 21st centuries.

Viola player Cian Ó Dúill has performed with the Vanbrugh, Carducci and Calino String Quartets, the Fidelio Trio, the Avalon Ensemble, Fews Ensemble and the Crash Ensemble. He has played in chamber music recitals with Jörg Widmann, Anthony Marwood, Finghin Collins, Natalie Clein, Kirill Troussov, and Patricia Rozario as well as appearing at West Cork, Ortús, Sligo Spring, Kilkenny Arts, Cheltenham, Warwick Arts, Aldeburgh, Wye Valley and Kings Lynn Chamber Music Festivals. Cian was a founding member of both the Regent String Quartet and the Rothko String Trio, was a member of the London Mozart Players Chamber Ensemble and is currently a member of the Solas Quartet. Concerto appearances include performances of works by Bach, Telemann, Bruch and Hindemith in Ireland, the UK, Spain and Greece. Cian is a member of the Irish Chamber Orchestra, was co-principal viola of the London Mozart Players and worked regularly with the London Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Britten Sinfonia.

Accordionist Dermot Dunne began his performing career after winning the Irish National Music Competition - ‘Musician of the Future’ in 1996. He studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Kyiv, Ukraine, and now follows a busy career as a performer and teacher. He performs regularly at venues and festivals in Ireland and has given chamber music recitals and concerto performances across the globe. He has performed with leading European musicians including Pekka Kuusisto, Natalie Klein, Katherine Hunka, and Ivan Monighetti, and has recorded with groups including Crash Ensemble, Lunfardia, and the Far Flung Trio.

Diane is a violinist and chamber musician. She has been a member of the Irish Chamber Orchestra since 1998 and has toured the world with many prestigious ensembles including the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. She is in huge demand as a chamber musician, performing at major international festivals. In other genres she has performed alongside and recorded with Sir Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, The Corrs, Bono, Shania Twain, Katie Melua and plays in her own gypsy jazz trio. She was the recipient of a scholarship from the Irish Research Council, completing her PhD in 2019. She is currently Course Director of the MA in Classical String Performance in the University of Limerick where she also teaches Dalcroze, Kodaly and improvisation. Based in Co. Clare, she works extensively as an animateur, coach and workshop leader and directs the Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy projects.

Far Flung Trio is a true blend of fun, energy, and music. Made up of three outstanding musicians; Katherine Hunka on violin, Dermot Dunne on accordion, and Malachy Robinson on double-bass, this delightful trio bring an element of joy and playfulness to every performance. Their concerts are characterised by a dizzying array of styles including music by Bach, Biber, Liszt, Piazzolla, and many more surprises in between. This informal arrangement breaks down the barriers between the audience and performers, encouraging the spectators to engage, especially the kids. It’s a family show not to be missed.

Geraldine O'Doherty studied the harp at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and the Hochschule für Musik in Zurich with Catherine Michel. During her studies, she won the Kiwanis Musikpreis in Zurich and second prize at the Reinl International Harp Competition in Munich. Geraldine has recorded five albums of chamber music for harp, violin and cello and an album of works for flute, viola and harp with the group "Triocca" on the Lyric FM label. Her latest recording work is with Ficino Ensemble on the Ergodos label, featuring music by Ravel and Gareth Sholdice. Over the years, Geraldine has premiered chamber and solo harp works by James Wilson, Philip Martin, Linda Buckley and Eric Sweeney. Her playing features on many film soundtracks, most notably ‘Albert Nobbs’, ‘Room’ and the ‘The Little Stranger’. Highlights of her career so far include many tours with the John Wilson Orchestra, joining them for the 2019 BBC Proms, and recording new music for mixed choir and harp with the UCD Choral Scholars in Dublin. Geraldine is Principal Harpist with the RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin and teaches at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

Jakub Jakowicz studied violin at the Warsaw Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. He was the last student of Professor Tadeusz Wroński, one of Poland’s legendary violinists, and made his stage debut at the age of 11. In 1998, Krzysztof Penderecki invited him to play at the Penderecki Festival in Krakow, where he performed under Jerzy Maksymiuk. In 2001, Jakub made his debut with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then, he has made solo appearances with renowned orchestras in Europe and South America. As a chamber musician Jakub has worked with many distinguished colleagues such as Heinz Holliger, Garrick Ohlsson, Michel Lethiec and Zvi Plesser. From 2008 to 2014 he was the primarius of the Lutosławski Quartet and since 2006 is a member of the Zehetmair Quartet, founded by Austrian violinist and conductor Thomas Zehetmair. In 2018 the Witold Lutosławski Society awarded Jakub the Witold Lutosławski Centennial Medal for outstanding contributions in the dissemination of the composer’s music. The artist obtained his PhD and lectures at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. He plays an instrument by Gand Frères (Paris 1859), courtesy of the Fondation Jerzy Semkow.

Born in East Germany, Joachim Roewer graduated from the Hochschule für Musik “Franz Liszt” Weimar and the Orchesterakademie of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, having performed frequently with this world class orchestra in Berlin and internationally. During his studies in Germany (and just after the fall of the Berlin Wall) he was invited to lead the viola section of the International Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under Claudio Abbado in concert halls throughout Europe.In 1994 Joachim moved to Ireland to become principal viola with the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Over the last few decades he appeared on numerous occasions as soloist with the orchestra. Joachim is a passionate teacher, a member of the Esposito String Quartet and was frequently invited to perform with the Vogler Quartet, the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet and the Contempo Quartet. Joachim teaches viola and chamber music on the MA programme in Classical Strings at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick.

Singer-songwriter, storyteller and community musician, Kathleen Turner is Tyrone born and Limerick adopted. She moved to the city to study community music in 2007, fell in love with the people and place and never left. Since then, her music has grown legs with her debut EP, Some Stories, in 2015 followed up by The Lines Between Us in 2017, which was produced by award-winning folk artist and composer, Chris Wood. At the close of 2019, Turner released her first full album, Like a Lion, in collaboration with renowned multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer, Sean Óg Graham. Described by The Irish Times as a collection of songs “shot through with grit and gumption,” this album is a celebration of women and lays the groundwork for Kathleen’s future projects post-Covid.

Kevin O’Loughlin is a violist from Dublin. Currently studying Economics and Finance, he is an Ad Astra Performing Arts Scholar at UCD. He studies viola with Simon Aspell (Vanbrugh Quartet) at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and has also studied with Rosalind Ventris. Kevin has won many scholarships and awards at the Feis Ceoil, RIAM, Newry and Newpark festivals. In the Feis Ceoil, he has won all Junior and Senior Viola categories, along with the Junior Rosebowl for Strings and the Arthur Catterall Cup. In 2019, Kevin was awarded the John Pollard Bursary at the RIAM. He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland from 2016 to 2021, where he was leader of the viola section and has been invited to play with the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and leading the viola section of the Junior Festival Orchestra at the Verbier Music Festival, Switzerland. He has participated in masterclasses as Young Scholar at the RIAM and as part of the Camerata Ireland Academy with Daniel Rowland, Patrick Rafter, Garth Knox and Tim Vogler among others.

Miriam is equally happy playing in modern orchestras and chamber groups as well as period-instrument ensembles. She regularly performs with the Irish Baroque Orchestra and has guested with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Arcangelo (BBC Proms), Brandenburgische Bach Gesellschaft, Crash Ensemble, and the Irish National Opera Orchestra. She has played at the National Concert Hall, chamber music festivals around Ireland, and in New York, Beijing and Aldeburgh. She is a member of the experimental new-music group, Kirkos Ensemble, and has collaborated with the Contemporary Music Centre. As a soloist she has appeared with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, NSO, IBO, Esker Festival Orchestra and Dublin Orchestral Players. Miriam was the Irish Freemason's Young Musician of the Year 2015, inaugural recipient of the RDS Jago Award and was recently awarded the Tile Style Bursary (Business to Arts). She graduated from the Royal Irish Academy of Music, studying with William Dowdall and taking masterclasses with William Bennett, Sir James Galway, Peter-Lukas Graf, Felix Renggli and Andras Adorjan. She also learned traverso with Lisa Beznosiuk and Rachel Brown, was a Britten-Pears Young Artist and a scholarship participant of the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Institute in Toronto.

An alumna of the RIAM Dublin, MDW Vienna, and the Oper Frankfurt Young Artists programme, her opera repertoire includes roles such as Sesto in Giulio Cesare, Hänsel, Dorabella, Dido, Ariodante, and Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. She recently created the role of “Amy” in the world premiere of Donnacha Dennehy’s and Enda Walsh’s Fedora prize-winning opera “The Second Violinist”. Recent highlights include London and Amsterdam opera debuts with The Second Violinist, her Oct 2018 Wexford Festival Opera debut as Lucy Talbot in the European première of William Bolcombe’s Dinner at eight, and creating the role of “Ceres'' in the world premiere of Silvia Colasanti’s Proserpine at the 2019 Festival di Spoleto. Recordings include Gilbert & Cellier’s comic opera The Mountebanks with the BBC Concert Orchestra, and La Traviata with the NDR Radiophilharmonie alongside Thomas Hampson and Marina Rebeka. A disc of Schubert songs was released in May 2020 with pianist Jonathan Ware.

Born and raised in County Cork, Siún completed her BMus degree on scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied baroque violin with Nicolette Moonen and modern violin with Mateja Marinkovic. A keen chamber musician, Siún has performed with a wide variety of ensembles throughout her career including the Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloist at Wigmore Hall, Camerata Ireland and many more. Member of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Siún is no stranger to the Irish Chamber Orchestra and has performed with renowned solo artists such as Igor Levit and Tabea Zimmerman.

Sophia Rahman made the first UK recording of Florence Price’s piano concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. She has recorded with the Scottish Ensemble, and over forty chamber music discs for a host of international labels. Sophia has appeared in recital with distinguished cellist Steven Isserlis, violinists Augustin Hadelich, oboist Alex Klein, clarinettist Karl Leister and the celebrated tenor Mark Padmore, as well as working with her multi-talented partner: violinist, violist and conductor Andres Kaljuste. Sophia has coached junior chamber music at Sibelius Academy, Finland, Lilla Akademien, Sweden, and at the Arvo Pärt Centre, Estonia. Known for her work as a class pianist at IMS/Prussia Cove, she has played with Kim Kashkashian, Atar Arad, Thomas Riebl, Hartmut Rohde and Steven Isserlis. Her interest in this field began as a class pianist for the legendary William Pleeth at the Britten-Pears School. After early tuition with Antonietta Notariello, Sophia studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School under Peter Norris. The winner of the Royal Overseas League’s Accompanist Award and the Liza Fuchsova Memorial Prize for chamber music pianism in consecutive years, Sophia is also the Artistic Director of the Whittington Festival in Shropshire, UK.

Performer, composer, and teacher; Yuval Gotlibovich's artistic activity is varied and interconnected. As a violist he has won first prize in the Lionel Tertis (UK), Fischoff (USA) and Aviv (Israel) competitions. His debut album for the NAXOS record label, with the Catalan Chamber Orchestra featuring the music of Ramón Paus, gained international recognition as it entered the top ten best-selling albums of Naxos worldwide in the first month of its release. Upcoming Album releases include, Viola Concerto by Anton Garcia Abril, with Real Filarmonia (Galicia), and Menachem Wiesenberg Encounters IV and Concertino with the Beethoven Philharmonie, conducted by Thomas Roesner. His Sonata for Viola and Piano was premiered at the Tokyo Opera by Nobuko Imai and Izumi Tateno and later featured in the International Viola Congress in Rotterdam. Gotlibovich has composed music for the documentary film ‘Pantalla Rasgada’, directed by Gerardo Gormezano; he is also the artistic director of the International Music Festival ‘Ciudad Monumental de Cáceres’. This coming October he will premiere the music to the film The Passion of Jean D’arc, in KlassiskeDage, Denmark.