© Raymond Fenton and Cotswold Early Music Festival
John Wilson was born in Manchester in 1941, and studied the piano and organ with Gordon Frost and later the piano with Elizabeth Norman McKay, and the harpsichord with Richard Lester, having a performance diploma on that instrument. He is now resident in Cheltenham, home of the renowned literary and music festivals.
As a musician he gives occasional recitals on the harpsichord, piano and organ. In 2006 he performed four concertos (for two, three and four harpsichords) with I Cancellaria, and a Sonata for two harpsichords by Antonio Soler, as part of the Cotswold Early Music Festival.
As an acknowledged expert in the field of autograph letters and historical documents John Wilson is widely consulted on matters of value and authenticity by colleagues in the trade and by government agencies.

Jenny Tribe was originally a wind player and teacher; she took up the viol as an adult in order to play the renaissance repertoire, studying with Alison Crum. She has performed with Musica Mundi and the Bristol Consort of viols. After moving to Cheltenham she founded Drake's Music, a consort of viols and voices, who have played in St Patrick's church, Soho Square and entertained the ISM. Last July they gave a sellout fundraising concert in aid of the Holst Museum in Cheltenham, which was repeated in Hereford for the Three Choirs Festival Fringe.
Jean Holland (baroque recorder) started piano lessons at the age of 11 and reach Grade VIII soon after leaving school. She took up the recorder almost by accident when teaching children and soon became involved in the world of early music.

Mike O'Connell (baroque flute) was marked out as a flute player by his father who thought he resembled a snake-charmer whose picture he had seen in the newspaper. He played the clarinet in chamber groups in his teens and later became a pupil of Jonathan Morgan on the baroque flute.