Anthony Marwood enjoys a wide-ranging international career as a soloist, director, and chamber musician. Recent solo highlights include performances with the Hallé Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Concerto Budapest, Adelaide Symphony, Boston Symphony, St Louis Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, New World Symphony, London Philharmonic, Spanish National Orchestra, and Sydney Symphony. He has worked with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Sir Andrew Davis, Thomas Søndergård, Andrew Manze, David Robertson, Gerard Korsten, Ilan Volkov, Jaime Martín, Douglas Boyd, Mark Wigglesworth, and Chloé van Soeterstède.

Highlights of the 2025–26 season include performances with the Ulster Orchestra, Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, alongside engagements in Australia and New Zealand with UKARIA, Sydney Conservatorium, Snow Concert Hall, At the World’s Edge Festival, and the Adelaide Festival.

In Summer 2021 he received great acclaim for his performance of the Ligeti Violin Concerto with Thomas Adès and the Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra, “None could outshine special guest Anthony Marwood…this concerto demands Olympian-calibre endurance from its soloist, and Marwood surely would have run away with the gold…Marwood’s violin dug deep through double stops and soared high with angelic resonance…The orchestra’s closing gesture had scarcely dissipated before the fellows sharing my row were on their feet, cheering at full blast. They knew excellence when they heard it” (Boston Globe).

As director and soloist, Anthony is a frequent collaborator with many of the world’s leading chamber orchestras, including the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

A sought-after chamber musician, he enjoys close partnerships with celebrated artists including Steven Isserlis, Aleksandar Madžar, Alexander Melnikov, Dénes Várjon, and James Crabb, and has collaborated across disciplines, with numerous actors, Indian classical dancer Mayuri Boonham, Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor, sculptor Nicole Farhi, and South African guitarist Derek Gripper. For sixteen years he was the violinist of the Florestan Trio and, in 2006, received the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist Award.

Many leading composers have dedicated concertos to him, among them Thomas Adès (whose concerto Anthony also recorded for EMI), Steven Mackey, Sally Beamish, and Samuel Carl Adams. His extensive discography includes nearly forty recordings for the Hyperion label, notably Walton’s Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins, which earned a 5-star Guardian review, a Strad “Recommended Recording” accolade, and praise from The Sunday Times as “a thrilling, virtuosic soloist.” His most recent release is Steven Mackey’s Beautiful Passing with David Robertson and Sydney Symphony Orchestra on Canary Classics.

Studying at London’s Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music & Drama, with teachers Emanuel Hurwitz and David Takeno, Marwood now divides his time between Sussex and Koringberg, South Africa. He is co-Artistic Director of the Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival in East Sussex, performs annually at the Yellow Barn Festival in Vermont, and enjoys close associations with the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne and UKARIA Cultural Centre in Adelaide. Appointed William Lawes Chair of Chamber Music at the Royal Academy of Music in 2022, he was also awarded an MBE in the 2018 Queen’s New Year Honours List and made a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music. Anthony plays a violin by Antonio Stradivari, the 1709 ‘ex Scotta-Kaulbach, Kempner’ (Cremona), on loan from UKARIA following a gift from a generous Australian benefactor. He uses a bow by Joseph René LaFleur.

Since its formation in 2021, the award-winning Astatine Trio has emerged as one of the UK’s most exciting young ensembles, most recently being named BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists for 2025-27. They were awarded second prize and the special prize for best performance of the prizewinning work of the composition competition at the 2025 Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition in Graz, becoming the first UK-based ensemble to win a main prize in the competition’s history, and their other accolades include first prizes at the Birmingham International Piano Chamber Music Competition, Virtuoso&Belcanto International Chamber Competition (Lucca, Italy) and Senior Intercollegiate Piano Trio Competition in 2022. The trio have performed extensively across the UK and abroad, including at Wigmore Hall, The Glasshouse (as part of the BBC Proms), Kings Place and Aldeburgh’s Jubilee Hall, and as Britten Pears Young Artists for the 2023/24 season they made their debut appearance on BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’ in February 2024. They are current Hans Keller Chamber Fellows at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and are a resident ensemble at ProQuartet – Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre (Paris) for the 2025-2027 seasons. The trio have also been selected as Kirckman Concert Society artists for 2025/26 and are the recipients of the 2025 RPS Henderson Chamber Ensemble Award.

From 2022-25 the trio benefited from the mentorship of legendary pianist Alfred Brendel, at his personal invitation. They have undertaken residencies at Snape Maltings and at the University of Cambridge, as part of ChamberStudio’s inaugural Hans Keller Forum, and attended the 2025 IMS Prussia Cove masterclasses in the class of Thomas Adès. Currently, they are ChamberStudio Fellows for 2025-26, though which they are being mentored by Anthony Marwood, and are a member ensemble of the European Chamber Academy.

They are also grateful for the guidance of Richard Ireland, John Myerscough, Prach Boondiskulchok, Michał Kaznowski, David Waterman, Luc-Marie Aguera and Riccardo Cecchetti and have worked with Alasdair Beatson, Susan Tomes, Paul Watkins, Alina Ibragimova, Thomas Hoppe, Yovan Markovitch, Patrick Jüdt, Minna Pensola, Indre Baikstytė, Tim Horton, Donald Grant, Adrian Brendel, Peter Nagy, Krysia Osostowicz, Christoph Richter, Bruno Giuranna, Robin Ireland, the Gould Trio and the Busch Trio, among others.

Passionate advocates for new music, the trio received the SEAM Prize for contemporary music at the 2023 Lyon International Chamber Competition, in which they were the youngest finalists. They also gave the premiere of a new piano trio by Timothy Salter in June 2025, written especially for the group.

The trio is thankful to Chamber Studio, the Piano Trio Society, Maggie Grimsdell (Music at Longhill Road), Philip Carne and the Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust for their generous support.

Trio Havisham is an award-winning ensemble comprising pianist Zany Denyer, violinist Magdalena Riedl, and cellist Seth Collin. Renowned for their thoughtful music-making, their performances have been described as having “real flair, while never losing that sense of balance” (CAVATINA, 2022).

Having won the Musicians’ Company Award at Wigmore Hall (2023), they are now part of the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ five-year Young Artist Program. They have also been selected by the Kirckman Concert Society as Kirckman Artists for the 2024/25 season, after previously being part of the Tunnell Trust’s roster of artists in 2023/24.

The trio is also grateful for the support of Chamber Studio, who invited them to participate in three residences at the University of Cambridge as part of the Hans Keller Forum (2023/24). They were recently invited to the 2025 IMS Prussia Cove Masterclasses, where they studied in the class of Anthony Marwood and later invited onto the Open Chamber Music Programme. In the Summer of 2025, they were an Ensemble en Résidence at La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival, at the invitation of Trio Wanderer. They are currently studying as members of the European Chamber Music Academy.

The trio has also achieved success in international competitions, winning 2nd prize at the Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon (2023). Previously, they were awarded 1st prize at the CAVATINA Intercollegiate Chamber Music Competition at Wigmore Hall and reached the finals of the Birmingham International Piano Chamber Music Competition (2022). More recently, they were prizewinners at the Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China (2025) and reached the semi-finals of the 12th International Chamber Music Competition: Franz Schubert and Modern Music (2025) in Graz, Austria.

The trio is grateful to have received numerous opportunities for masterclasses and coachings with esteemed musicians over the past few years, including James Baillieu, Alasdair Beatson, Michael Dussek, Leonard Elschenbroich, Donald Grant (Elias String Quartet), Ralf Gothóni, Richard Ireland, Laura Jellicoe, Matthew Jones, Yair Kless, Robert Levin, John Myerscough (Doric Quartet), Carole Presland, Petr Prause (Talich Quartet), Wu Qian (Sitkovetsky Trio), Hannah Roberts, Gábor Takács-Nagy, the Takács Quartet, Trio Karénine, David Waterman (Endellion Quartet), Jeremy Young, So-Ock Kim, and the Gould Piano Trio. A particular passion of Trio Havisham lies in exploring the rarely performed trios of Bohuslav Martinů. In 2023, they recorded his 1st Piano Trio, ‘Cinq pièces brèves’, for the Abbey Road Institute.

Zany and Seth are currently pursuing advanced studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where the ensemble was awarded the Ivan Sutton Chamber Music Prize, as Artist Diploma and Postgraduate students, respectively. Magdalena is completing a Professional Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music. The ensemble originally formed at the Royal Northern College of Music, where they were awarded the Christopher Rowland Ensemble of the Year Prize. Magdalena plays a violin by Enrico Ceruti, generously loaned to her through Beares’ International Violin Society.

The award winning Trio Archai has quickly established itself as one of the most exciting young ensembles of its generation. Founded in Basel in 2023, the trio has quickly gained international recognition through winning First Prize and Beethoven Prize at the Schoenfeld International String Competition 2025 in China, and First Prize at the 72nd Royal Over-Seas League Competition 2024 in London.

Their performances have taken them to prestigious venues and festivals including Wigmore Hall, Tivoli Vredenburg, St. George’s Bristol, Schaffhausen Klassik, Harbin Cultural Center, Swiss Chamber Music Festival, and Whittington Festival. As Britten Pears Young Artists 2025/26, they will take up a residency at Snape Maltings. Winners of the Tunnell Trust Concert Scheme 2025/26, they are also laureates of the Orpheus Swiss Chamber Music Competition.

The trio’s repertoire spans the great works of the piano trio canon alongside a strong commitment to contemporary music. Alongside programming works by the leading voices of today, they premiered two new commissions in the 2024/25 season: ‘Triangulum’ by Dominic Röthlisberger (Swiss Chamber Music Festival, supported by Pro Helvetia and Fondation SUISA) and ‘Nocturnes’ by Jeremy Sams (Whittington Festival).

Mar Valor (piano), Ayla Sahin (violin), and Finn Mannion (cello) met at the Musik Akademie Basel, where they study as a trio with Claudio Martínez Mehner, Rainer Schmidt, Anna Gebert, and Anton Kernjak. They have benefited from the guidance of eminent artists such as Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Alexander Lonquich, Alina Ibragimova, Dénes Várjon, Robert Levin, Zoltán Fejérvári, and Danjulo Ishizaka. They are members of the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA), ChamberStudio London, scholarship holders of Jeunesse Musicales Deutschland and were selected to join Thomas Adès’s class at IMS Prussia Cove 2025.

The name Archai (pronounced “Ark-ai”), from the Ancient Greek for “origins” or “first principles,” reflects the ensemble’s shared musical values and their commitment to grow together.