Simon is a versatile trumpet player, equally at home on modern and baroque

trumpets. He has performed as a soloist with The Orchestra of the Age of

Enlightenment, The Academy of Ancient Music, Les Arts Florissants, The New London Consort, Gabrieli Consort, Ex Cathedra, and La Serenissima. Amogst others he plays with the Royal Opera House, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Halle & BBC Philharmonic. 

Bach’s second Brandenburg Concerto, Leopold Mozart, Joseph and Michael Haydn trumpet concertos, Telemann Concerto in D are among many of the solo works he has performed as well as being an avid chamber musician, perfromig with Alberti Brass, the

London Brass and the Halle Brass. 

Simon regularly appears in the West End, on film and TV scores - and has particularly enjoyed tours with Peter Gabriel playing on his latest albums.

Simon began with the Salvation Army, he was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Music studying modern and baroque trumpet. Simon now teaches at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Described by International Record Review as an “outstanding soloist”, Geoffrey Coates has pursued a distinctive and eclectic career as an oboist since he went on stage with Florilegium at the age of 19. His work has seen him collaborate with artists as diverse as Lea Salonga and Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and he is a featured artist on recordings of repertoire from Albinoni to Arvo Pärt.

One of the few oboists to be equally at home on modern and historical instruments, Coates has performed in all of London's concert halls with every major UK period instrument orchestra, and on tour in some two dozen countries. Recent orchestral work includes the BBC Proms with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a new Glyndebourne Opera commission, a season as guest with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia and Cosi fan Tutte with Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.

Solo credits include two well-received recordings of oboe concertos, with Gramophone magazine praising Coates's "sympathetically affective reading" of Albinoni's D Minor concerto. He appears frequently as a soloist in London's St-Martin-in-the-Fields concert series, with engagements further afield including the Marcello concerto in Tel Aviv and concertos by Bach and Herschel at Dartington.

Coates won a scholarship to study at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where his teachers included Neil Black, Richard Simpson and Gail Hennessy, and he was awarded an Erasmus Scholarship for study in the Netherlands with Frank de Bruine.

Sophie studied Music at the University of York, followed by a Masters in Violin Performance at the Royal Northern College of Music. Since graduating in 2016 she has been busy pursuing a portfolio career in teaching and as a freelance performer on both modern and baroque violin.

Ensembles she performs with include English Baroque Soloists, London Handel Orchestra, London Handel Players, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Instruments of Time and Truth, Manchester Camerata, Northern Ballet Sinfonia, Orpheus Sinfonia, Southbank Sinfonia, Sinfonia Cymru, the European Union Chamber Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Sophie is also passionate about teaching and outreach work; she has held teaching positions with institutions including the Royal College of Music Junior Department, Chetham’s School of Music, Royal Northern College of Music Young Strings, In Harmony Liverpool, Downe House, Cheam School and Music Masters.

Working as a musician on historically informed instruments has led Rosie to playing bass violin, violone and 16-foot (double) bass in a variety of concerts and ensembles. 

She is currently a continuo player for the Oxford Bach Soloists and, as a regular performer with Florilegium, she has recorded Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos live on BBC Radio 3 at the York Early Music Festival, performed at Wigmore Hall and recorded Haydn’s symphonies, Le Matin, Le Midi and Le Soir as soloist. 

Rosie has worked with The Gabrieli Consort and Players, La Nuova Musica, ETO and has toured Vivaldi’s ‘Griselda’ with Irish National Opera and Irish Baroque Orchestra. She has been invited to play with The Sixteen and The King’s Consort.

Rosie studied with Peter Buckoke at the Royal College of Music and subsequently with Mirella Vedeva and Alberto Bocini at Geneva Conservatoire where she also had regular classes with Franco Petracchi.