James Taylor was born in 1976. He read music at Huddersfield University, graduating in 1998 with honours, then an MA in 1999. He completed his postgraduate studies at McGill University Montreal earning his Artist Diploma with distinction.James has played numerous concerts in Europe, North America and New Zealand where he spent a year as Assistant Director of Music at Wellington Cathedral of St.Paul. In 2005, James travelled to Freiberg, Saxony to perform in the Gottfried Silbermann Orgelwettbewerb. During his studies in Québec, James worked at Christ Church Cathedral and later at St. Matthias Church, Westmount. He has broadcast frequently on radio and television as a soloist, conductor and accompanist. James now lives in Cork where he is looking to further his experience as an organist, teacher and harpsichordist.

Marja Tuhkanen finished a Bachelor of Music degree in her native Finland on violin and viola in 2002.
Apart from classical music, she was always interested in folk and early music, and was a multi-instrumentalist, arranger and composer in the Finnish folkrock band Tarujen Saari. With them she toured the major Finnish folk festivals and released two critically acclaimed albums, "Hepsankeikka" and "Levoton Hauta".
During her college years, she spent a year in Cork School of Music as an Erasmus exchange student and became addicted to both the city and Irish music. As a result 2002 found her back in Cork. She completed her MA in Cork School of Music (CIT) in 2004, for which she received 1st class honours, studying with Adrian Petcu and Baroque violinist Maya Homburger.
Her special interest in early music brought her the following year to the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, Holland, studying Baroque violin under Pavlo Beznosiuk.
Since 2005 she has worked in Ireland as a much-in-demand session musician, in styles ranging from classical to tango, baroque to rock.
As a member of different orchestras, chamber groups and folk/trad bands, Marja has performed in most countries of Europe, Russia and the USA. In Ireland, she has played with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Cork Opera Works, Opera 2005 and the Irish Baroque Orchestra to name but a few, and has performed/toured/recorded with numerous bands and artists including Intereference, Boa Morte, Paul Tiernan, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Adrian Crowley and Glen Hansard. She enjoys good food, travelling and impromptu jam sessions.

Ilse de Ziah was born in the U.S.A into a musical history, having had a great grandmother who used to sit on Brahms' knee as a child!
She attended the Sydney Conservatorium of Music high school and went on to study there for her B.Mus under the tutelage of Susan Blake and Georg Pederson.
She was a member of the Australian National Ensemble, played with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and founded the Cove Chamber Orchestra.
Ilse left Australia for London, joining the Adam Darius Mime Co. as cellist, composer and mime artist.
She performed in various physical theatre productions including work with her own theatre company "Falling Ballgowns".
Ilse joined singer/songwriter Jan Allain for performing and touring around the world, as duo Jan and Ilse, building up a huge following and making many recordings.
In 2002 Ilse came to Ireland. She performs in chamber music and orchestral concerts and recordings with various musicians including Beyond the Pale, Milis, Micheal O Suilleabhain, Cork Opera Works and Opera 2005. She formed Slipchicks in 2005, playing original and Early Music.

Conor O'Connell began his musical studies at Cork School of Music, taking both recorder and flute to diploma level. He graduated from University College, Cork, with a B.A. degree in Music and French. This was followed with postgraduate studies at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, where his teachers included Philip Pickett and Pamela Thorby. Conor has performed throughout Ireland, most recently in solo recitals in Fota House and in the Honan Chapel, U.C.C., in the Opera Judith and Holofernes, composed by John Gibson and with the Irish Baroque Orchestra and Emma Kirkby in the East Cork Early Music Festival. Last February Conor was soloist with the Cork School of Music Baroque Orchestra in concertos by J.S. Bach and William Babell. Conor has just completed the two-year MA in Performance in Cork School of Music (CIT). Conor teaches recorder and flute with the County Cork V.E.C. School of Music.