Jane has played with EMG Symphony Orchestra on a number of occasions including a most beautiful interpretation of the Brahms Concerto which featured in Exeter July 2002. 

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".... Jane Gordon brings not only a ravishing tone and depth of timbre but a real sense of musical line to everything she plays." (The Independent, 2004)
Jane is a versatile musician with an increasingly busy international performing schedule as a soloist and chamber musician. She has given recitals at major London venues such as the Purcell Room, St John’s, Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields, and further afield at the Martinu Hall in Prague and the Stradivarius Festival in Cremona, Italy. Jane’s Purcell Room debut in the Park Lane Young Artists Platform 2004 was received with great critical acclaim.
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in July 2003, Jane won the Marjorie Hayward prize for the highest postgraduate violin final recital mark, the Beare violin prize and the prestigious DipRAM award. She had previously studied at the Royal College of Music as a Foundation Scholar, and won the Dove and Isolde Menges violin prizes.
In 2004 Jane won the Anglo-Czechoslovak Music Competition and, as a string finalist in the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition, she won the Elias Fawcett Prize. She has since given a series of recitals for ROSL as part of the Edinburgh fringe festival in August 2005.
Jane was awarded the 2005 English Speaking Union Scholarship to attend the IMS Prussia Cove masterclass course and has also benefited from the generous support of the Musicians Benevolent Fund, Myra Hess Trust, Craxton Memorial Fund and Philharmonia Award/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.
Jane’s concerto experience includes several performances of the Beethoven and Brahms Violin Concertos and she will be performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto in the 2005/6 season. Previous solo appearances include The Lark Ascending at the Tippett Centre in Bath and numerous period instrument performances of earlier works such as Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, and all of Bach’s violin concerti. She has also performed Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the Isca Ensemble directed by Roger Hendy.
In 2004 Jane formed The Rautio Piano Trio with pianist Jan Rautio and cellist Katherine Jenkinson. The Trio was chosen to join the Tillett Trust’s Young Artists Platform scheme in 2005 and will make its Wigmore Hall debut for YAP in September this year. A busy forthcoming schedule includes recitals at Fairfield Hall, the National Portrait Gallery, St. John’s, Smith Square, Music at Duffield, Leeds Town Hall, and festivals throughout the country including Honiton, Harrogate and Warwick.

Nicholas Hill began to play the French horn under the instruction of Colin Stiff in Exeter before winning a scholarship to Wells Cathedral School at sixteen. Wells is one of the four specialist music schools funded by the governments music and ballet scheme and Nick spent two years there learning with Simon de Souza and playing in many different instrumental ensembles. He has participated in master classes with Richard Bissil (LPO), Hugh Seenan (former LSO), Angus West (WNO) and Julian Baker among other prominent brass musicians. He has enjoyed playing in several local and national ensembles and highlights include performances at the Edinburgh Festival, the Gower Festival and in Paris with the National Youth Wind Orchestra. Nick spent last year studying in America where he learnt with Susan Ramsdell-Baxter and Richard King of the Cleveland Orchestra and on returning to England he took up a place to study Politics and American studies at the University of Nottingham. At Nottingham Nick plays in two orchestras, a symphonic Wind ensemble and conducts the University Brass ensemble, rumour has it that he even manages to do some work now and again! Nick now learns the horn with Bob Ashworth of Opera North and hopes to study the horn again at postgraduate level. 
With Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Nicholas has performed Britten's Serenade for Tenor and Horn recently in Honiton, East Devon which received much critical acclaim.

Robin and his parents played with the orchestra for many years before he moved on to begin his academic and playing studies in London. He has returned to Exeter on a number of occasions to play concertos with the orchestra and continues to be a great inspiration for many players.

Now, Professor Stowell, Robin joined the Music department, Cardiff University  in 1976 on completion of advanced violin studies at the Royal Academy of Music (Leverhulme Scholar) and PhD research at Cambridge University. His career has since maintained a dual emphasis on performance and musicology. He is a specialist in performance practice, organology and music of the 'long' eighteenth century, and he has published numerous articles in a wide range of books, dictionaries (including New Grove II) and journals. He is co-editor (with Colin Lawson) of the Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music and has also served as editor of and principal contributor to three Cambridge Handbooks (Violin, 1992; Cello, 1999; String Quartet, forthcoming). As a violinist, he made his London debut at the Purcell Room in 1974 and has since made several solo appearances in London and other major cities. Commercial recordings and radio and television broadcasts have also featured prominently in his performing schedule, and he was for many years a regular member of the period-instrument ensemble The Academy of Ancient Music. For more information about Robin's work and publications click here.