Sally Bradshaw sung the title role in the Harmonia Mundi recording of Handel’s Agrippina, a world premiere, which was Sunday Times Record of the Year and Opera Now! Record of the Month, but is also the soloist on the Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Left to my own Devices’. Many contemporary composers have written for Sally: Nicola LeFanu, Howard Skempton, Alec Roth and Judith Weir among them. She is a founder member of the group Words and Music, for which readers have included Rowan Williams, Prunella Scales, Timothy and Samuel West, Eleanor Bron, John Julius Norwich and Alexander McCall Smith.

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Julian Broughton is both composer and pianist, the duo partner of violinist Miriam Teppich for whom he wrote a concerto. His Quartet No.3 was premiered by the Fitzwilliam String Quartet in 2018, and No.4, The Crossing Point, was commissioned by the Resol Quartet, who performed the work at the St Magnus International Festival in Orkney in 2025.

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Gareth Armstrong’s career has combined the roles of actor, director, writer and teacher. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and performed in the West End and at Shakespeare’s Globe. He was an Artistic Director of Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre and an Associate Artist at Salisbury Playhouse. Gareth now specialises in creating solo performances with other actors and creatives. His most recent play, Round About Hogarth, was premiered in London in February 2026.