Stephen Johnson studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, and under Alexander Goehr at Leeds University. He has broadcast frequently for BBC Radio 3, 4 and World Service, major projects including 14 programmes about the music of Bruckner for the centenary of the composer's death (1996), and has written regularly for The Independent, The Guardian, BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone.

Martin Roscoe performs as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician all over the world. As a concerto soloist, Martin has worked with Sir Simon Rattle, Libor Pesek, Kent Nagano, Yuri Temirkanov, Luciano Berio, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Lü Jia, Andrew Litton and Mark Wigglesworth, to name but a few. He has performed with orchestras in Germany, France, and Croatia. Further afield he has given concerts in South Africa, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Tecwyn Evans has established himself as one of the most successful New Zealand musicians of his generation. He began his career in the UK immediately after finishing his studies, when Sir Andrew Davis appointed him Chorus Master for Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1999 - a position he held for four years. In 2005 he made the final of the Leeds Conductors’ Competition, where in the final he conducted Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition with the Orchestra of Opera North. Since then he has conducted numerous UK orchestras. He made his BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra debut in December 2008 at concerts in Ayr and Aberdeen.

Formed in December 1935 by Scottish composer and conductor Ian Whyte, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is recognised as one of the UK’s leading orchestras. The winner of several awards, including a Royal Philharmonic Society Award (the only Scottish orchestra to do so) and four Gramophone Awards, its wide repertoire and flexible approach to format means it can perform a complex contemporary piece as a specialist ensemble alongside a major symphonic work. It has a busy broadcasting schedule on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Television and also records commercially.