EMILY BEYNON is principal flute of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam. Born in Wales, she began her flute studies as a junior at the Royal College of Music with Margaret Ogonovsky and then went on to study with William Bennett at the Royal Academy and with Alain Marion in Paris.

She teaches at The Hague Royal Conservatory and in 2002 was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. Equally at home in front of the orchestra, Emily has performed as concerto soloist with, amongst others, The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, the major BBC Orchestras and Vienna, Prague, Netherlands and English Chamber Orchestras. As a chamber musician she works regularly with her sister, the harpist, Catherine Beynon and the pianist Andrew West, and has made guest appearances with the Nash Ensemble, Skampa Quartet, Steven Isserlis, Dame Felicity Lott, Jean-Yves Tibaudet, the Kungsbacka Trio and Brodsky Quartet. She has broadcast regularly for BBC radio and has featured in several television documentaries for Thames, the BBC and AVRO (Netherlands).

Emily has made five solo CD recordings. An enthusiastic protagonist of new music, Emily has had many new works written for her, by some of the UK's leading composers: Sally Beamish, Jonathan Dove, John Woolrich and most recently a BBC commission by Errollyn Wallen called All the Blues I See, written for and premiered by Emily and the Brodsky quartet.

CATHERINE BEYNON began playing the harp at the age of eight, and attended both the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London, and then completed her studies at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Lyon with Fabrice Pierre. She is an extremely enthusiastic chamber musician and has performed across Europe and Japan with numerous distinguished artists such as Quatuor Debussy, Francois Le Roux and The Lindsay String Quartet. Catherine has given solo recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Fairfield Halls and St Martin-in–the-fields, and in September 1997 made her BBC Prom debut in the Chamber Music Series.

She has made many chamber music recordings for labels such as Naxos, Metier and Hyperion. She has also performed as concerto soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the London Chamber Orchestra.

As principal harp of the European Union Youth Orchestra, Catherine worked with many eminent conductors, such as Haitink, Ashkenazy, Giullini and Rostropovich. Since August 1999, Catherine has been principal harp of the Royal Danish Orchestra in Copenhagen (Det Kongelige Kapel) and in November 2002 was appointed principal harp of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, a post she will take up in September 2003.

n May 2000, Catherine was awarded an A.R.A.M from the Royal Academy of Music, an Honorary Degree awarded to former students of the Academy who have distinguished themselves in the profession