Anna Fleming was a member of the Cape Philharmonic orchestra, S.A. and is now leader of the Banbury Symphony orchestra. She has shaken Nelson Mandela’s hand and recently potty trained her young son.

Claire works for Open University as programme coordinator for TESSA, Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa and Bangladesh. She has a friend who was massaged by the hand that massaged Kofi Annan.

Rhian is head of Creative Arts at Gosford Hill School and teaches viola privately. She is passionate about music and rugby. Her viola is also Welsh made by Clive Morris in 1984.

Anna Frazer likes scraping walls when not scraping her ‘cello (her words) whilst renovating her old house in Oxfordshire.
When a member of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, her father made a little table to fit on the top of her ‘cello case to hold her pint in the pub after concerts! Her ‘cello is a John Betts 1760.
 

Peter has spent his working life in the performance music industry. He now runs the Piano Showroom and ‘cello workshop in Bridge Street, Witney. He is playing an English cello by William Forster made in 1804. He likes recycling and is also renovating his old house in Oxfordshire, it must be a cello thing!

Daphne has lived in Oxford, Japan and Kent where she has worked with Opera Companies, Broadcasters and School Music Departments and recorded and performed as pianist and singer. She has recently moved back to the area and is keen to go on teaching, directing and encouraging musicians wherever possible, using her vast experience in the music world.

Diyana Divchev Curr
I began to play piano at the age of six in my home town of Haskovo, Bulgaria, under the tuition of Maria Becheva.
In 1986, aged 14, I was admitted to the renowned school of music in Stara Zagora. Six years later I moved to the Academy of Music in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, where in 1996 I graduated with a 'Diploma in Piano Performance'.
The next few years were taken up with studies for a Masters in Chamber Music with Prof. Dimitar Kozev.
From a young age I have given many recitals, both as a solo pianist and as part of a group playing chamber music.
After eight years of teaching in Sofia, I moved to the Middle East as part of a classical duo of piano and cello. I was contracted pianist in Al Bustan Palace Hotel in the Sultanate of Oman where I spent two years, followed by a year in Cyprus where I continued playing and teaching.
Now settled in Witney, Oxfordshire with my young family, I am teaching piano lessons to children and adults, and provide piano entertaining and performances for weddings and events.