If you have any feedback on how we can make our new website better please do contact us and we would like to hear from you.		GARY SOUTHWELL - 9 string guitar and composer Gary whilst having little formal classical training has been an active performer from an early age. His eclectic music has taken him from choir stalls to the folk club circuit to classical recitals halls and music festivals throughout Europe and America. He has written music for the stage The Cherry Orchard, Teeth Like Razors; large scale ensemble pieces 2001 Moments; and in recent years has worked mainly as a composer and guitarist writing and performing new scores to classic silent films including Nanook of the North, St Kilda and Finis Terrae.  Gary is also a world renowned guitar maker and has worked closely with many famous artists such as Julian Bream, John Williams and Paul Simon.  On the rare occasions he is without a guitar in hand Gary will no doubt be found with his two young daughters Emily and Maria, their 2 dogs and vast array of animals that seem to inhabit their house. He also enjoys practicing the ancient art of toxopholy. ZOE GLOSSOP - oboe and cor anglais Zoe grew up in Leeds. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where her performance of the Schnittke Concerto for Oboe and Harp was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. She then won a scholarship for postgraduate study in Rotterdam. She now works as a freelance musician, including being principle oboe of English Philharmonic Orchestra with extra work for Manchester Camerata, D’Oyly Carte, Northern Chamber Orchestra and National Festival Orchestra. Apart from her busy playing schedule Zoe enjoys walking with her two dogs and is studying physics at Sheffield University. JIM KIMBERLEY - percussion   I have played drums since the age of 0yrs. You prob'ly don't believe that but it's true. Back then it was just kitchen pots and wooden spoons. Now o course it's PEARL MASTERS SERIES (all maple) and ZILDJIAN Super 5A. Pretty cool for a poor bald child from the wrong side of the tracks eh? Oh sure the glitterati has, from time to time, beaten a path to mydoor. Great artists such as Nick Heyward, Squeeze, Mark Knopfler, Kimberley  Rew, William Topley, The Lightening Seeds, Nick Harper, Glenn Tilbrook, Aimee Mann, Paul Young, Marcella Detroit, Paul Brady; familiar names to you all I'm sure, became more like friends than employers. But fortunes can go down  as well as up, and when I was down it took a bizarre twist of fate (ask me and I might just tell...) to pluck me from the obscurity of the New Cross  Inn ( London SE15) where I was eking out a meagre existence in a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band (twice weekly). The good times have been rocking ever since. It's been a rollercoaster of sold out shows, movie premiers, glamorous back-stageparties, hangin' with the A list in prestigious studios and touring the globe in a big, camp, chromium plated bus (gotta love the bus). Ultimately of course I have you, the public, to thank for this enviable lifestyle and so I do. Thank you all. It's a BLAST! It really is. Isobel Morris - voice Born in Yorkshire Isobel studied fine art and sang in the folk club circuit, until she gained her degree.  Moving to Alaska for 5 years she pursued both her art and music, holding numerous solo exhibitions and supporting Leanne Rhymes with folk duo ‘The Pagan Cowgirls’. Returning to the UK in her late 20’s, she currently lives in London where her folk rock band Bruise play throughout the UK, Europe and the USA, Isobel writes for and manages the band and is an active participant in the London art scene. JOHN SAMPSON - guitar and live electronics John Sampson is a musician and producer who fronts the experimental pop band Swimming. A self-confessed sound-junkie who has worked on a wide range of projects from producing albums with bands such as Amusement Parks on Fire and Pilgrim Fathers to collaborating with sonic artist Dallas Simpson on environmental binaural remixes. Swimming's debut album was released in May 09 on his label, Colourschool Records to great critical acclaim. SARAH WATTS - clarinet and bass clarinet Sarah Watts studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Angela Malsbury and Victoria Soames Samek (bass clarinet). Sarah then decided to specialise in the bass clarinet and studied at the Rotterdam Conservatorium on the postgraduate solo bass clarinet course with Henri Bok, funded by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and in 2002 a Leverhulme Trust Studentship. At the end of her course in Rotterdam Sarah was awarded the Exxon prize for the best classical music student. Successes include: Winner, UK Howarth Clarinet Competition 2000; Winner, Hawkes Clarinet Prize (RAM) 2001; Chamber Music Prize (RAM) Winner of wind section and Faber Prize, UK Performing Australian Music Competition, 2001 (her clarinet and bass clarinet recital was broadcast on ABC radio) Sarah has performed clarinet concertos with the Royal Academy of Music Sinfonia and the European Union Youth Wind Orchestra, but she specialises on the bass clarinet. With the intention of increasing its popularity as a solo instrument, she has performed solo repertoire in England, Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands and has attracted composers such as Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Marc Yeats, Ian Wilson, Kevin O Connell, Alicia Grant and Sungji Hong to write works for her. In January 2003, Sarah performed a solo bass clarinet recital in London’s Purcell Room as part of the Park Lane Group Young Artist Series. Sarah has recently taken bass clarinet repertoire classes and composition workshops at many of the major UK music conservatoires. Sarah was an artist on the Live Music Now Scheme and a member of Rarescale. Sarah regularly works with Nottingham pianist Antony Clare with their duo SCAW and they have just released their debut CD SCAWFELL on the clarinet classics label.

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