Soloists for the 2005 - 2006 season.

Jon Holland -  trumpet

In his third year at the Royal College of Music he was accepted into the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) and became Trumpet Section Leader in 1987, his current position. Jon has freelanced with most British orchestras, including appearances as Guest Principal with the London Sinfonietta, the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestras and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.  Abroad, Jon has appeared as a guest with the Ensemble Modern (Germany) and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra (Norway). Jon has played regularly with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) since its foundation in 1987 and has a keen interest in the contemporary repertoire. Jon brings for the first time to Exeter the lively Trumpet Concerto by the Armenian composer, Alexander Grigori Arutunian.

Jane Gordon  -  violin.

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 has since given a series of recitals for Royal Over-Seas League Music 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. In 2004 Jane formed The Rautio Piano Trio with pianist Jan Rautio and cellist Katherine Jenkinson. We warmly welcome her back once more to he native Exeter for her debut performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

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