Jane Gordon, Violin

Jane was a prize-winning scholar at the Royal College of Music with Dona Lee Croft and completed her studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Marianne Thorsen, graduating with the Marjorie Hayward Prize, the Beare Violin Prize, and the DipRAM, winning the highest violin award in her year. Jane is a highly versatile violinist, equally accomplished as a soloist and chamber musician, and increasingly in demand as a leader and director with a specialism in historical performance practices from baroque to classical and early romantic. Her Purcell Room solo debut in 2004, for which she kindly loaned the ‘Kustendyke’ Stradivarius violin from the Royal Academy, received great critical acclaim and she has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Martinu Hall in Prague, Edinburgh Festival (ROSL) and the Stradivarius Festival in Cremona. Jane was concertmaster of Trevor Pinnock’s EBE Orchestra at the 2009 Halle Handel Fesival in Germany, and recently performed in his ‘Handel’s Garden’ chamber music tour in Bonn, Munich, Salzburg and the Wigmore Hall.

Jane was winner of the First Prize in the Anglo-Czechoslovak International Competition (2004), string finalist and prize winner of the Royal Over-Seas League Competition (2004), winner of the English Speaking Union IMS Prussia Cove Scholarship (2005), and was selected for the Park Lane Young Artist Platform (2004). She is also recipient of scholarships from the Musicians Benevolent Fund, Myra Hess Trust and Philharmonia MMSF, and regularly attends IMS Open Chamber Music.

Adi Tal, Cello

Since making her solo debut at the age of twelve with the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, cellist Adi Tal has performed as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, the Haifa Symphony, and the Herzliya Chamber Orchestra.  She has collaborated with conductors such as Dan Ettinger, Aldo Ceccato, and Thomas Sanderling.

A recipient of the America-Israel Foundation Scholarship since 1995, the Ronen Foundation Scholarship since 2000 and the Raphael Sommer music Scholarship Trust since 2006, Ms. Tal’s solo and chamber music performances have also been broadcast on the Israeli Radio. Adi has participated in the Perlman Music Program and the Perlman Chamber Music Workshop, the Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival, the Verbier Academy and the Schleswig Holstein Masterclasses.
Since 2002, Adi has been a regular participant at the master classes and Open Chamber Music at IMS Prussia Cove. Adi received her BMus from the Cleveland institute of Music, and is currently completing her postgraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music as a student of Ralph Kirshbaum. Adi plays a Guadagnini cello. Adi is winner of the 2008 Muriel Taylor Cello Prize.

Jan Rautio, Piano

Born in Russia, Jan began his musical education at the Gnesin School of Music in Moscow. He was a prize-winning scholar at both the Royal College and Royal Academy of Music in London, graduating in 2005 with top honours. He was awarded the Tobias Matthay Fellowship, the Sterndale Bennett Recital Prize, and the Robert Alva Memorial Prize.
Jan is a critically acclaimed soloist, accompanist (winner of the English Speaking Union Accompanist Prize 2004) and chamber musician. He performs throughout the UK, including Edinburgh and Brighton Festivals, Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Bridgewater Hall; Russia and in Europe, at venues such as Haydn Saal in Vienna and Palazzo Borghese in Rome. His concerto appearances include those of Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich. In 2006 Jan made his USA debut with performances in Charleston, and subsequently was invited to appear in Charleston International Piano Series and Steinway Hall in New York in 2007.