Jane is currently principal flute of Aurora Orchestra and the Orchestra of London. She has also played with the London Sinfonietta in the Southbank Berio Festival, and has recently been on trial with Orchestra of Welsh National Opera. In June, Jane played principal flute in the London Symphony Orchestra Wind Scheme and in August, she played piccolo in the Britten-Pears Orchestra. Jane has also recently featured as a soloist with the Cambridge Singers on the title track of The Gift of Music, by John Rutter. Jane also plays baroque and classical flutes, which she studies with Lisa Beznosiuk and Rachel Brown.

She is a member of the Jeune Orchestre Atlantique, a period instrument ensemble conducted by Philippe Herreweghe. She is also undertaking the Jerwood Apprenticeship Scheme with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

SOPHIE RIVLIN (Cello) is in her final year of the Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) where she studies with Philip Sheppard and Colin Carr (previous teachers include Rebecca Gilliver, Melissa Phelps and Joan Dickson.) She has played chamber music in leading UK venues (Purcell Room, St John’s Smith Square, Kettles Yard, BBC Radio Scotland) and as part of the Britten Festival 2001, Cambridge Summer Music Festival 2005, and St Columb Festival 2003.

As a founding member of the Capriccio Piano Quartet, she toured Sweden and was a recipient of the Phyllis Lee Award. Her recent solo experience includes performances with the Joyful Company of Singers in London, Petworth and for the International Polyfolia Festival in Normandy. Orchestral experience includes leading the cello section for Canterbury Choral Society in Canterbury Cathedral 2005, The Kensington Sinfonia in St John’s Smith Square 2005 and The Choir of London Orchestra on their tour to Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories 2005 and on their forthcoming Naxos Recording of Taverner’s ‘Lament for Jerusalem.’

Most recently she organised a concert of twenty five cellists playing together in a concert at the Dukes Hall (RAM). Before attending the Royal Academy of Music she completed a philosophy degree at Clare College Cambridge and, in 2003, worked at the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation in Mumbai teaching the cello and conducting the ‘Singing Tree’ Children’s Choir.