Rolf Hind has worked closely with living composers across a broad range of styles including John Adams, Tan Dun, Ligeti and Judith Weir. Rolf is a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, teaching chamber music and composition for the piano.

Philip Moore and Simon Crawford-Phillips have been playing together as a piano duo since 1995, when they met as students of Hamish Milne at the Royal Academy of Music. During their studies they won 1st prize at the 1997 International Schubert Competition in the Czech Republic, 2nd prize at the 1998 Tokyo International Piano Duo Competition and the 1999 Royal Over-Seas League Rio Tinto Ensemble Prize. Regular performers on BBC Radio 3, they made their Proms debut in 2001. Detlev Glanert's Two Piano Concerto was co-commissioned by the Duo and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Artistic Director of the Cheltenham International Festival of Music 2005-2007, he was Associate Principal Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 1994-2005. After studying composition in London and then conducting with Ilya Musin in Leningrad, he won first prize at the 1988 Leeds Conductors' Competition. Since then he has conducted most of the major symphony orchestras and ensembles in Britain.