ADAM WALKER was born in Retford, Nottinghamshire in 1987. He taught himself to play the flute at the age of 9 and entered Chetham's School of Music a year later. In 2002, Adam became the youngest ever winner of the British Flute Society Competition and in 2003 won the Royal Over-Seas League prize for the woodwind player with the most promise. In 2004 he was a Concerto Finalist in the BBC Young Musicians Competition, performing Nielsen's Flute Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. In 2005 he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where he is currently studying and in 2007 he was selected for representation by YCAT. Adam has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall and St George's in Bristol; has toured the Middle East; appeared with the Hallé Orchestra and taken part in festivals including the Rye Festival and the Mecklenburgh Festival in Germany.

BARTHOLOMEW LAFOLLETTE was born in Philadelphia in 1984 and from 1997 was a pupil at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey. In 2003 he won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and in 2007 was selected for presentation by YCAT. Bartholomew has won numerous prizes including the Guilhermina Gift and a Jellinek Award which led to performances of Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme with orchestras throughout Europe and the USA. Earlier this year he was the first recipient of the Irish Chamber Orchestra's Ardan Award which offers a young emerging international soloist a platform at the ICO's music festival.

As a recitalist and chamber musician, Bartholomew has appeared at major venues including the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Fairfield Halls, Croydon. Last season he took part in a workshop by the Emerson Quartet in New York which culminated in a performance of Dvorak's Piano Quintet at Carnegie Hall.

JOHN REID read music at Claire College, Cambridge where he gained an M.Phil in musicology before taking up a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. His many awards include the 2003 Kathleen Ferrier and the Maggie Teyte accompaniment prizes and the 2003 Birmingham Accompanist of the Year (joint first prize). In 2004, he was awarded the Queen's Commendation for excellence by the Academy. Over the last few years, John has made a number of significant debuts: at the Wigmore Hall in May 2004 with soprano Lucy Crowe; at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, with trumpeter Alison Balsom. With regular duo partner, violinist Thomas Gould, he has also given recitals at the Purcell Rooms and at the Buxton and Chichester festivals. John is an alumnus of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Music Song Circle, with whom he performed the complete Morike Lieder of Wolf, and whose debut disc was released to critical acclaim.