Michael Williamson studied the violin with Herbert Whone and became interested in the baroque violin after playing in the Dartington Festival Baroque Orchestra under Paul Goodwin. Since then he has studied with Micaela Comberti, and performed with period instrument groups, including the dance group Saltarello, which was commissioned to create ‘The Grand Tour’ by the Galway Early Music Festival 2000. With the Warwickshire Waits, he tours schools playing medieval, renaissance and baroque music on the bowed psaltery, rebec and tenor viol. Michael continues to develop his interest in string music as a teacher for Warwickshire County Music Service, where he is Head of Strings. He has conducted the Warwickshire String Training Orchestra at the Warwick & Leamington Festival and the Bournemouth International Festival, as well as in tours of Europe.

Jacqui Robertson-Wade is a graduate of Trinity College of Music in viola da gamba and 'cello and has studied with Edgar Hunt, David Hatcher and Alison Crum. She received an 'Arts for Everyone' Lottery award, as a member of the Arden Consort, which enabled the group to give concerts in the community where period instruments were a new experience. She has established viol teaching for Warwickshire County Music Service, and directs several children's viol consorts. She is currently writing viol tutors for children, to be published later this year. Jacqui was awarded a scholarship to return for further study to Trinity College of Music, where she spent a year specialising in the repertoire of the seven-string viola da gamba and five-string pardessus de viole. She has now started her own publishing company Rondo, to publish music for stringed instruments.

Micaela Schmitz, originally from the U.S., specialises in early keyboard instruments, including harpsichord, fortepiano and clavichord. She recently finished her Doctorate of Musical Arts at the Eastman School of Music, in Rochester, New York. She spent two years studying at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague on a Rotary scholarship. In 2002, she was awarded bursaries to study with Penelope Cave at the Dartington International Summer School, and with Kris Verhelst and Joos van Immerseel at the Vleeshuis in Antwerp. Her teachers have included Arthur Haas, Jacques Ogg, and Bart van Oort, and she has had coaching with Colin Tilney, Kenneth Gilbert, and Bob van Asperen, among others. Besides running a private studio and acting as Associate Lecturer with the Open University, she is the new Editor of the magazine Harpsichord and Fortepiano. Her solo concerts features commentary and historical readings. She runs workshops and courses on Renaissance vocal music, Continuo, and for young people runs workshops on music and dance, including managing and delivering education work for the Chipping Campden Music Festival.