Who plays here
Our musicians
Award-winning singers and instrumentalists who perform on some of the world’s greatest concert stages and in leading opera houses, just a few feet from you.
Natalie Montakhab
Studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the RSAMD Opera School, and has sung with English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera. Recent roles include Gretel, the Vixen, Adina, Musetta and Cleopatra, and she is an established oratorio soloist. Natalie founded the series at Goodworth House.
James Way
Grammy-nominated tenor, heard here in Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin.
With a natural command of the stage, James Way was a consistent scene stealer.
The New York Times
Nicholas Morris
A powerful and beautiful voice, with a truly versatile career: from Mephistopheles in Faust and Scarpia in Tosca to world premieres with Shadwell Opera and Theater Magdeburg. He sang Mozart's Papageno and Don Giovanni here in July.
Christopher Taylor
Trained at the Royal Academy of Music, Christopher has performed as a soloist and chamber accompanist across the UK and around the world, from the Purcell Room and St Martin-in-the-Fields to Dubai, Oslo, Seattle and Sydney. He is equally at home with seventeenth-century continuo and contemporary jazz.
Ying Shan Hu
Born in Maastricht, Ying Shan studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig and is now on the Artist Diploma at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. A prizewinner in the Steinway Piano Competition, she has performed at the Concertgebouw and the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, and at the Schumann and Mendelssohn Houses in Germany.
Harry Grigg
A beautiful voice and a natural communicator. Harry took a master's in performance with distinction at the Royal College of Music, won the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards, and sings Tamino in The Magic Flute in New Zealand next year.
Natalie Burch
One of the most exciting song pianists in Britain today.
A gifted sound-painter, breathing life into every detail.
BBC Music Magazine
Ana Bursac
Serbian pianist and first-class honours graduate of the Royal College of Music, where she won the Steinway & Sons Award. She has performed before HRH Princess Alexandra.
Lance Mok
Hong Kong-born pianist with First Class Honours from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Master's from the Royal College of Music. Made a Fellow of the Royal Schools of Music in 2017.
Erlend Vestby
Norwegian cellist, equally at home on modern and baroque cello. He trained at the Norwegian Academy of Music and in Stavanger before a master's at the Royal College of Music. He has performed the complete Bach Cello Suites, plays as an extra with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and played at our very first concert.
Tom Jesty
BBC Chorister of the Year in 2004, Tom went on to read music at St Peter's College, Oxford, where he fell for the art of accompaniment, then took a master's with distinction at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is music director at St Mary's, Islington, and comes most alive in song and chamber music.
Nigel Ellis
Clarinettist, joining us in November for Schubert's The Shepherd on the Rock.
George Wilkes
A versatile cellist whose performances have taken him across the UK, Europe and the United States, from concert halls to chamber and contemporary settings.