HOWARD MOODY

Howard has a versatile career as conductor, composer and keyboard player. He is conductor of Sarum Chamber Orchestra and Salisbury Festival Chorus and has also conducted Icelandic Opera, Opera Factory, Monteverdi Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Hallé Orchestra, Orchestra della Toscana, Orchestra of St John’s, Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Romantique and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in their recent concert launching Liverpool as European City of Culture for 2008. As a keyboard player Howard plays with John Eliot Gardiner’s English Baroque Soloists and Orchestra of St John’s, and has duo partnerships with cellist David Watkin, tenor Nigel Robson, and violinist Ken Aiso. Commissions as a composer include orchestral, stage and choral works. He is also involved in many creative projects that develop young people’s imaginative ideas into dramatic, instrumental and vocal works. Recent projects include large pieces for English National Opera, The Anvil, Theatre Royal Norwich, Children’s Music Workshop and a collaboration with Paco Peña in writing Requiem for the Earth, a Flamenco requiem commissioned by Salisbury Festival. As both conductor and improviser, Howard has toured many jazz festivals with John Surman in his Proverbs and Songs, originally commissioned for Salisbury Festival, and has written, transcribed and arranged pieces for other groups including Jack DeJohnette, London Brass and Bournemouth Orchestras. He has been MD of musicals in the West End and recorded with ECM, Chandos and the BBC.

DAPHNE MOODY

Having studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Sydney Humphreys and Frederic Grinke, Daphne went to Canada to play with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonic Quartet. On her return to England she free-lanced with both the Halle Orchestra and London Festival Orchestra, and now devotes her musical life to performing chamber music. She is leader of both Sarum Orchestra and the Eberle Quartet.

ANDY BAKER

Andy Baker enjoys a very varied musical career both as a Double Bass player and as a Music Animateur. After finishing his double bass and guitar studies at the Royal Academy of Music he was invited to join the London Festival Ballet Orchestra. He also freelanced extensively, playing with the LSO, Philharmonia and English Sinfonia, and in 1977 was appointed Principal Bass in the BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra. A year later he joined the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, a position he held for 17 years. During that time he became very interested in Music Education and wrote and was Musical Director of 3 original rock operas. He was a founder member of the Sarum Chamber Orchestra in 1986 and has played regularly with them ever since. In 1995 he was appointed Music Animateur of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He has led literally hundreds of Music Education Projects all over the country and abroad. He works regularly with Howard Moody, the SCO’s Artistic Director, most notably recently alongside John Surman during his residency with the SCO. He has also led education projects for the City of London Sinfonia, Children’s Music Workshop and Royal Ballet and is also a member of the Limerick-based and highly innovative Folk/Jazz Crossover group ‘Hiberno Jazz’, with whom he has performed with, amongst others Jimmy Webb, Paul Brady, Hothouse Flowers and Clannad.