Lydia grew up in Seattle, Washington, where she began studying violin with Mihoko Hirata at age four. She moved to Prague, Czechia when she was ten, studying with Markéta Janoušková, where she focused her attention on soloist repertoire and worked with a Czechian youth orchestra. Lydia attended several masterclasses and competitions in and around Prague, such as the Czech/France intensive in Telč with Jan Talich. In Spring of 2017, Lydia won the first-place prize at COBIS International Music Festival in Murcia, Spain. At 13, Lydia joined St Mary's Music School, where she studied with Rachel Smith on modern violin and baroque violin with Hilary Michael. Lydia was the winner of St Mary’s Music School’s Intermediate Recital Prize in 2020 on modern violin and a finalist in 2022 Directors’ Recital Prize on baroque violin. Currently 17 years old, Lydia will move to Amsterdam to study baroque violin at the Conservatorium with Shunske Sato and Sayuri Yamagata.

India Reilly is sixteen years old and studying violin with Dr Valerie Pearson at St Mary's Music School. Before joining St Mary's Music School in September 2020, she studied with Mysie Ferguson for eight years. In 2019 she was named Co-leader of NYOS Junior Orchestra, and took a place in the Senior Orchestra in 2020. She also led the Waddell Orchestra from 2020-2021. She has taken part in the SCO String Academies in November 2019, November 2020, March 2021, and was a peer mentor in November 2021. She has attended two live Benedetti sessions, Dundee 2020 and Perth 2022 along with a few of the online sessions. She was the music scholar at the Edinburgh Academy and received first place in the school's soloist competition two years running. This year she has enjoyed playing with the Junior RCS String and Symphony Orchestra performing many times, including at the COP26 climate conference, and working with conductors such as Douglas Boyd and Natalia Luis-Bassa. In 2022 she was awarded highly commended in the Edinburgh Competition Festival 15- minute strings recital and the Nan Christie Memorial Prize for Strings and was a finalist in the St Mary's Music School Intermediate Recital Prize. She has taken part in many masterclasses with violinists including: Salvatore Greco, Claire Docherty, Tamas Fejes, Lev Atlas, Hector Scott, Angus Ramsay, and Jack Liebeck.

Daisy Richards is a 17-year-old violist from Dunblane. She started her musical journey at the age of seven under the tuition of Barbara Downie and continued with Professor Lev Atlas on viola at the RCS Juniors. Before joining St Mary’s Music School, in September 2019, Daisy was the principal violist of both Junior and Senior NYOS orchestras and is currently principal for the RCS Junior Symphony Orchestra and Co-principal for NYOS Symphony Orchestra. Since joining St Mary’s Music School Daisy has enjoyed playing in viola masterclasses with Tabea Zimmerman, Lawrence Power and Jack Liebeck, and Chamber Music masterclasses with the Maxwell Quartet. She has been a prize-winning violist in competitions around the world. She has participated in Chamber Music festivals at the RNCM in Manchester, RCS in Glasgow and the Xenia Chamber Music course in Turin, Italy, and has played alongside musicians including Nicola Benedetti, Jess Gillam, Antonello Farulli, The Ayoub Sisters, Timothy Ridout and Alexey Stadler.

Alex Boyd-Bench is an 18-year-old cellist and composer, born in Cambridge, who has played ‘cello since the age of four. He attended St Mary’s Music School from 2014-2022 learning ‘cello with Ruth Beauchamp and Duncan Strachan. He will be attending the Royal College of Music, London, from September where he will continue to study ‘Cello as well as Baroque ‘Cello. Alex likes playing all kinds of Chamber Music and especially enjoys playing String Quartet repertoire due to the wide contrast of techniques and music it presents.