As an avid player of all flutes from renaissance all the way through to modern flute, London-based Beth Stone enjoys a colourful career performing in many different settings in the UK and Europe. She has had the pleasure of working with a variety of orchestras including the Academy of Ancient Music; Irish Baroque Orchestra; Ex-Cathedra; The Sixteen; Armonico Consort; Cambridge Handel Opera Company; among many others. Her playing can also be heard on recordings with the Taverner Consort and the Academy of Ancient Music. Beth’s radio debut took place in Germany for WDR3 and she has won several prizes in competitions including the 2023 International H.I.F. Biber Competition; the Telemann Fantasia Recording Competition 2021 and the 2020 Samnium University’s International Orchestra Auditions awards.

Chamber music has always been a central part of Beth’s music making. She has performed with several chamber groups, and now primarily, the award-winning Flutes & Frets Duo and Lumas Winds which have enabled her to perform in many festivals, concerts, competitions and events. Supported by several schemes and trusts, she has had the opportunity to tour Scotland on various occasions, and perform in festivals in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, and The Netherlands.

Beth spent seven years studying at Chetham’s School of Music from age eleven, taking an interest in historical flutes in her final two years there. As an Ian Evans Lombe Scholar, she graduated from the Royal College of Music with a first class honours in 2022, where she studied modern flute with Gitte Marcusson and historical flutes with Rachel Brown as part of the joint principal course, winning the RCM McKenna Prize for the highest end-of-year recital mark in a baroque instrument.

Daniel Murphy specialises in performing a variety of plucked-stringed instruments and enjoys a solo career as well as collaborating with many different singers and instrumentalists. Inspired by the great lute players of the past, historical accuracy is at the heart of his music-making.

As a young guitarist, Daniel Murphy studied at the Junior Guildhall Music Department for 4 years with Mark Eden and Matthew Robinson. He then started his Undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music studying Classical Guitar with Carlos Bonell. During the first two years of his degree, he gradually transitioned to the historical performance department and in his third year, he became RCM’s first ever undergraduate principal-study theorbo player, studying with Jakob Lindberg. In 2023, he graduated from a Masters of Performance Degree with distinction.

Daniel’s freelance work includes collaborating with ensembles such as Ex-Cathedra, Armonico Consort, Fiori Musicali, London Baroque Orchestra and The Bellot Ensemble, with whom he recently performed at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. As a lutenist, he regularly performs lute song with numerous singers including Emma Kirkby, Mary Bevan and Hugh Cutting. Opera forms a large part of his continuo playing, performing works including Handel’s Rodelinda; Purcell’s Fairy Queen, and Monteverdi’s l’Orfeo.

Career highlights include performing with the Taverner Consort, conducted by Andrew Parrott in Frauenchiemsee, Germany and numerous features on Radio 3’s Early Music Show and German Radio, WDR 3 Alte Musik. As a soloist, Daniel was recently the only lute finalist in the New Elizabethan Award 2022.