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Tom Kilworth is a British composer, conductor and arranger with a broad-ranging career He has orchestrated music in Disney’s Aladdin (2019) and Beauty and the Beast (2017), and has both conducted and orchestrated the scores for Guy Ritchie’s films The Gentlemen (2020), Wrath of Man (2021), and Operation Fortune (2022). Tom also regularly works with Sarah Brightman, having orchestrated and adapted music for her tours since 2015, and has worked with other artists including Rob Dougan and Mumford & Sons.

Tom earned a PhD in Composition at the University of Surrey in 2021, in which his thesis focussed on contemporary harmony and the music of modern Finnish composers, particularly Esa-Pekka Salonen. Tom’s compositions have been played by a variety of professionals including Notes Inegales, Delta Saxophone Quartet, Gemini, Huw Watkins, and Orpheus Sinfonia who premiered Tom's orchestral miniature Noctilucent as part of his being selected for their annual ‘Composer of the Year’ award.

Award winning violinist Maria Noskova started learning the violin at the age of five. She currently studies at the Royal College of Music with Professor Itzhak Rashkovsky and Professor Michal Cwizewcz. She has won first prizes in North London and Watford Festivals, the Moscow Music and Arts Competition and the Youth Music Centre Concerto Prize in 2019, amongst others. In 2017, she began attending the Purcell School of Music where she studied with Dr. Tatjana Goldberg. During her time there, she held the role of concertmaster for several orchestral concerts at Cadogan Hall, the Southbank Centre Purcell Room and Hatfield House, partaking in a side-by-side with the Carducci Quartet.

Since 2022, she has played in the Sonora Quartet (est. 2022), and has worked with prestigious quartets, such as the Marmen Quartet, the Sacconi Quartet and the Brodsky Quartet. They perform frequently in venues such as St Mary Abbots Church in Kensington, the Austrian Cultural Forum and the RCM Performance Spaces. Their most recent concert includes performing a series of works alongside the Brodsky Quartet.

Alongside this, Maria has also been teaching violin since 2020, and has a thriving studio of pupils. She is also an avid concert organiser and manager; she recently organised the memorial concert for the writer, Oliver Heal. She has played in masterclasses to Ian Watson, Remus Azoitei, Zaure Zharova and Tasmin Little. She currently plays on an Neapolitan 19th century violin kindly loaned to her by the Royal College of Music

Andrew Hickman has been a member of the Harrow Symphony Orchestra trumpet section since 2008, after studying performance and conducting at Middlesex University. He has also taken the role of Assistant Conductor with the orchestra. Some of the highlights of Andrew’s musical career include performing at the Royal Albert Hall and the O2 with Harrow Young Musicians, as well as going on tours to Venice, Barcelona and Nice with the same organisation.

He is a great lover of classical music in general, however is particularly interested in Romantic 20th century and English music of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Outside of music, Andrew is a primary school teacher and a football referee, a job that has taken him abroad to tournaments in Lisbon and Dallas. He also loves travelling, and a couple of years ago, was lucky enough to take a year out from work and travel around the world.