EMILY BEYNON
The Welsh flautist, Emily Beynon was appointed principal flute of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam in 1995 at the age of 25, the first woman and the first non-Dutch player ever to hold this position.

Equally at home in front of the orchestra as in its midst, she has performed concertos with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, The Academy of St. Martin in the fields, The Guildhall String Ensemble, and Vienna, Prague, Netherlands and English Chamber Orchestras.

Emily began her formal musical education as a junior department scholar at the Royal College of Music (London) with Margaret Ogonovsky and from there went on to study with William Bennett at the Royal Academy of Music and with Alain Marion in Paris. She now has a thriving class of her own at The Hague Royal Conservatory with students coming from all over Europe to study with her. In February 2002 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.

Also a keen chamber musician, Emily has two regular duo partners: her sister, the harpist Catherine Beynon and the pianist Andrew West. In addition, in recent years she has also performed with the Nash Ensemble, Skampa Quartet, Brodsky Quartet, Steven Isserlis, Dame Felicity Lott, Jean-Yves Tibaudet, Steven Kovacevich and Boris Beresovsky. As a recitalist, she appears regularly in Japan and Europe as well as on BBC Radio 3. She has also appeared in documentaries for Thames Television, BBC Television and AVRO television (Netherlands).

Emily has commissioned and premiered several new works for the flute including “The Magic Flute Dances”, a flute concerto by Jonathan Dove based on themes by Mozart, “Words for my Daughter” by Sally Beamish and “Darker Still” by John Woolrich.

ROGER VIGNOLES

Roger Vignoles is one of the world's most distinguished piano accompanists. In a career already spanning nearly four decades he has partnered many eminent artists, including Sir Thomas Allen, Olaf Bar, Barbara Bonney, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Robert Holl, Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Dame Felicity Lott, Elisabeth Soederstroem and Sarah Walker.

His many notable recordings include Reynaldo Hahn with Susan Graham, Tchaikovsky with Joan Rodgers, Schumann and Dvorak with Bernarda Fink, Wolf and Mahler with Stephan Genz and most recently, Britten, Finzi and Tippett with Mark Padmore and Volume I of Hyperion's complete Strauss series with Christine Brewer. Future releases include Strauss Volume 2 with Anne Schwanewilms, and a volume of Brahms Lieder with Bernarda Fink.

Roger Vignoles is in much demand as a teacher, giving masterclasses regularly in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo, at the Britten-Pears School, Snape, at Schloss Weinberg in Upper Austria and at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. In London he is Prince Consort Professor of Accompaniment at the Royal College of Music