Laura Justice graduated from the Royal College of Music with an honours degree in 2002, having previously studied recorder with Marion Scott. Whilst at the RCM she studied with Ashley Solomon and participated in several masterclasses with Walter van Hauwe. She has performed in London venues including St George's, Hanover Square as part of the London Handel Festival, Handel House Museum and St George's, Bloomsbury. Laura plays regularly with chamber groups Emerald and Iberian Archive, and performed a chamber concerto with the Romanian Baroque Players in St James's, Piccadilly and at venues across Norfolk. She has also played on stage at the London Coliseum with English National Opera in their production of Handel's Xerxes, with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, broadcast on Radio 3, and with Leeds Baroque Orchestra. She has given demonstrations at the Greenwich International Exhibition of Early Music, and currently lives and teaches in West Yorkshire. Last year Laura became the reviews editor for the Recorder Magazine.
Jennifer Bullock was drawn into the early music
world whilst undertaking postgraduate cello studies with Lowri
Blake at the Royal College of Music, following a somewhat unusual
initial degree in Microbiology and Immunology. Taking up both the
viola da gamba and baroque 'cello, she subsequently studied early
music at Trinity College of Music, London, with both Alison Crum
and Susan Sheppard, winning the intercollegiate Harriet Cohen
Memorial Music Award and gaining a coveted place on the Orchestra
of the Age of Enlightenment/Jerwood Experience for Young Players
during her time there. Since completing her studies in June 2004,
Jennifer has been enjoying a busy schedule of teaching and performing,
playing in the UK and abroad with both established and emerging
ensembles including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,
Musica Secreta and the Marésienne Consort. Jennifer has held
scholarships at both the RCM and TCM, generously supported by The
Drapers' Company, Beverly Creed, Etherington and TCM funds.
Bridget Cunningham studied the harpsichord, organ and conducting at
Southampton University and the Royal College of Music. At the RCM, where she is a Junior Fellow,
she performs, researches and coaches singers regularly on baroque style. She is sponsored by
the Worshipful Company of Musicians and also won a travel scholarship last year from the
Finzi Trust to research and perform Early Music in Ireland. Her performing experience
includes working as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, repetiteur and vocal coach.
She has worked with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, English Touring Opera,
Ulster Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra and the Oxford Girls Choir. She plays regularly
at the Handel House Museum and is Assistant Organist at St Patrick's Church, Soho and has
played as Deputy Organist at the Brompton Oratory. Research and performances have been featured
on BBC Radio 3 and 4, including Woman's Hour, Front Row, Night Watch, In Tune and Go 4 It.
She has recorded two BBC documentaries on Vivaldi with the OAE and the Schola Pieta Antonio
Vivaldi in Venice and the virginal music for the BBC 1 series 'Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen'.