Isobel Lane studied singing, oboe and piano at The Royal College of music.  She sang with the BBC Symphony Chorus, was a founder member of Nonsuch Singers and has performed with Opera Integra and Opera Mobile.  She has also done much solo work with a civil service choir

Clive Pollard studied Piano at the Royal College of Music in London, and later at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He won an Austrian Ministry Scholarship to study Lieder Accompaniment at the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg. Clive played regularly for BBC Radio 4 schools programmes before working as a repetiteur for Icelandic Opera and the Royal Ballet Company. As a composer, he has written songs, choral music, instrumental music and orchestral music. His song cycle "A Rainbow and a Cuckoo's Song" is published by Goodmusic Publishing. Clive is based in London, where he plays for singing courses at the City Lit Adult Education College. He also coaches singers privately on the Art Song repertoire.

Julia A. Katarina is a mezzo-soprano, oud player and cellist who taught for four years at music schools in Palestine. Previously she co-founded and toured with a chamber opera company, singing a title role in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Eurydice. Julia has an MA in Islamic Law and an MSc in Applied Music Psychology . She also studied and performed Qawwali internationally with the late Mehmood Sabri, youngest of the famous Sabri Brothers. In 2016 Julia founded her social enterprise, UnityMusic, touring England, Germany, Greece, Oman, Palestine, Lebanon and Sweden.

Julia also plays cello in orchestral concerts of music and songs from all over the Arabic speaking world including performing with Bassel Saleh in the Barbican Hall, the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians at the Brighton Dome and the Arabic Music Academy at St John’s Smith Square under Ala Majid She now plays cello and oud in the Orchestra from Everywhere with composer Priti Paintal , One World Orchestra with Jim Pinchin and is the principal solo cellist in the London Arab Orchestra, who gave its premiere concert last year at St Martin in the Fields. Julia gives regular solo oud song recitals at a variety of events from fundraisers for Palestine to Sufi festivals, Muslim weddings and art exhibitions.

Between 1973 and 1977 John Baily and Veronica Doubleday lived in Herat, in western Afghanistan, where they studied with local musicians and undertook detailed ethnomusicological research. John is Emeritus Professor of Ethnomusicology, and Head of the Afghanistan Music Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London, and author of several important books on Afghan music. Veronica is known for her acclaimed memoir, Three Women of Herat, and other publications on Afghan women’s music. They have given concerts all around the world, and in 2024 were awarded the Avicenna Peace prize for their charitable and community work. In this concert they will be performing traditional music from Herat.

Originally from India, Saara enjoys singing music from diverse classical and folk traditions . She has a particular interest in Andalusian music and more recently was drawn to Persian music through her love of Persian poetry. Saara regularly performs at interfaith and findraising events with her female acapela group Sacred Sounds.