George Caird with Bochmann Trio

George Caird is a distinguished English oboist and music educator. Since 1970, George Caird has combined a career as an oboist with one as a music educationalist, firstly teaching and later in senior posts at the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and Codarts Rotterdam. Graduating with an MA in Music from Cambridge University he pursued a freelance career with many of the London Orchestras. He joined the Royal Academy of Music as professor of oboe in 1984, became Head of Woodwind in 1987 and Head of Orchestral Studies in 1989. In September 1993, George was appointed Principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire a post that he held until August 2010. Since then he has held senior positions at the Codart Rotterdam, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. His influence in music education and performance has been instrumental in nurturing the UK's musical talent, positioning him as a significant figure in the British classical music scene.

Carol Hubel-Allen received her musical training at the Royal Academy of Music in London. After a spell with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra she joined the Pfeifer String Quartet in Stuttgart, touring extensively throughout Europe, During an extended stay in the US, she became a member of the Princeton Chamber Orchestra and the Chanterelle String Quartet. More recently, she joined the Dehler String Quartet of the Staatskapelle, Weimar. Carol holds several awards from the Royal Academy of Music and the Colmar International String Quartet Competition in France, and she has made numerous radio and TV recordings and discs

Nicola Tait Baxter is one of our foremost cellists. Her great love of the instrument led her to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, winning first prizes for solo and chamber music and graduating with first class honours; further studies and a scholarship took her studies to Germany and Brussels. In demand as a soloist and chamber musician these days, her repertoire includes most of the major ‘cello concertos; she has performed all six solo suites by Bach in festivals in Scotland, England and Germany and has appeared as a soloist in Switzerland and the USA.