ADRIAN BUTTERFIELD – violin, viola, chamber music, orchestra - UK is now established as one of the most versatile period-instrument musicians of his generation in the UK and abroad working as a conductor and violinist-director with both modern- and period-instrument orchestras, and as a concerto soloist, chamber musician and teacher. He is Musical Director of the Tilford Bach Festival and Associate Director of the London Handel Festival and directs ensembles such as the London Handel Orchestra, the Hanover Band and the Theatre of Early Music, Montreal across Europe and North America. Recent recordings include CPE Bach sonatas (ATMA), Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in E flat RV 254 (BIS) and the Bach Concerto for oboe and violin with John Abberger (Analekta). Future plans include a disc of Handel’s violin sonatas for Somm Records.

He leads the London Handel Players, whose two recent recordings, of Handel’s Op.5 trio sonatas and “Handel at Home” (Somm) have been highly acclaimed and also the Revolutionary String Quartet (and, in its expanded form, the Revolutionary Drawing Room) which specializes in classical and romantic music on period instruments.

Recent highlights include rare performances on period instruments of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Hanover Band, Bach Brandenburg Concertos in Ottawa and Mozart and Haydn symphonies with the Hanover Band. He has recently conducted Handel’s Fireworks Music, Rameau’s Pigmalion and an all-Bach programme in collaboration with the Thomanenchor, Leipzig, at the Royal College of Music, London where he is Professor of Baroque Violin and Director of the RCM Baroque Orchestra.

CATHERINE DENLEY - solo voice, UK has devoted most of her career to the oratorio repertoire. She studied at Trinity College of Music, London, and after a brief time with the BBC Singers embarked on a solo career which has taken her all over the world - she has worked with all the major British orchestras. Notable highlights have included the premiere of Europera by John Cage in London, Paris and Berlin; Handel's Messiah at Tanglewood, USA; Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Sir John Eliot Gardiner in Japan; Mahler's Resurection Symphony in Odessa and Kiev; his Symphony of a Thousand for TV in Dublin, and Mozart's Requiem in the Salzburg Mozartwoche and at the BBC Proms. More recently she has sung Schumann's Scenes from Faust with Sir John Eliot Gardiner in New York and the Proms; Britten's Spring Symphony in Amsterdam and Warsaw; Handel's Hercules and La Resurrezione with Marc Minkowski in Paris and Lyon; concert tours with Ton Koopman, and Bach's Easter Oratorio and Vivaldi Solo Cantatas with the Israel Camerata. Last December she gave several performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio with both Paul McCreesh and Trevor Pinnock. She has recently sung Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius in Manchester Cathedral, Bach’s St Matthew Passion in the Gewandhaus, Leipzig; Mahler’s 2nd Symphony in Boston, USA; Dvorak’s Stabat Mater at Kings College Cambridge and the Pergolesi Stabat Mater with Emma Kirkby in St Alban’s Cathedral. Renowned also as a teacher - she has recently given master-classes in Israel, Norway and Croatia as well as in the UK. She has made over fifty recordings primarily of the Baroque repertoire, including many works by Handel - with conductors such as John Eliot Gardiner, Roger Norrington, Neville Mariner, Robert King, Trevor Pinnock, Richard Hickox and Harry Christophers. Recent additions include Haydn's Paukenmesse; Handel’s Alexander Balus, Schubert Songs with the Songmaker's Almanac; three highly acclaimed volumes of Sacred Music by Vivaldi; La France au Calvaire by Dupre and Sullivan’s Prodigal Son.

ANDREAS HELM - oboe and recorder studied recorder, oboe and methodology with Carin van Heerden at the Bruckner Konservatorium, Linz, where he took his degree in 1999, and subsequently he studied baroque oboe with Alfredo Bernardini at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, finishing in 2002. He is a member of the recorder trio “Tricorders” and of the baroque groups “A la Maresienne” and “Rossi Piceno Baroque Ensemble”. With these ensembles, and as oboist and recorder player in such orchestras as the Wiener Akademie, L’Orfeo Barockorchester, Les Talens Lyriques, Concilium Musicum Wien, he has played throughout Europe, Mexico, Singapore and South Africa. In 2001 and 2002/03 he was first oboist and recorder-soloist in the European Union Baroque Orchestra, with whom he toured Europe, China and Japan. Andreas Helm has won the prestigious Premio Bonporti in Rovereto, Italy, and the Gradus ad Parnassum in Eisenstadt, Austria.

DADA RUŽA - choir, vocal ensembles, vocal technique – Croatia graduated conducting from the Music Academy of Zagreb where she studied with Igor Gjadrov. She then went to study harpsichord with Lucy Hallman Russell at Herman Zilcher Conservatoire in Würzburg, Germany. Dada Ruža teaches conducting, score reading and playing, vocal technique and conducts children's, girls' and mixed choir at the Varaždin School of music. The Girls choir won several prizes from home and international competitions and also Ivan Lukacic award from the Varaždin Baroque Evenings. She also wrote essays on Croatian sacral and choir music which were published by Croatian Institute of Scientific Research in Varaždin. Along with being active teacher, Dada is a jury member of the Varaždin Baroque Evenings, various choir competitions and the Head of Panel for conducting, vocal technique, score reading and ensemble playing at the Institute for the Development of Schooling at the Ministry of Education and Sport of Croatia.