An Honours graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Eluned enjoys a successful and diverse freelance performing career in the chamber and orchestral scene. She has worked with many top orchestras, Britten Sinfonia, BBCNOW, LPO, London Mozart Players and WNO. Over the last two decades she has performed in the BBC Proms, recorded and live broadcasts and has been fortunate to travel the world on tours.

Eluned has developed a successful and thriving teaching studio, teaching the violin, viola and piano and strives to make learning music fun for all ages.

Carly grew up in South Wales, where her passion for music began at an early age. She performed with a number of local youth orchestras before becoming Leader of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales. She went on to study violin at the Birmingham Conservatoire, where she developed her skills as both a performer and musician.

Alongside performing, Carly has taught violin and viola to students of all ages. As a session musician, she has recorded violin and viola for artists including the Manic Street Preachers and The Proclaimers, and has shared the stage with artists including Kanye West and the Manic Street Preachers.

Carly loves being part of a string quartet, working closely with fellow musicians to create beautiful live music that adds atmosphere and elegance to every occasion.

Born in Kent, January studied viola from a young age gaining her degree from the University of Bristol and a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. January is now a busy freelance player around the country, performing with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Welsh National Opera, the Bristol Ensemble, Southern Sinfonia, Longborough Festival Opera and West Green Opera. As well as performing as a soloist across Europe, January also plays with the Absolute Zero Viola Quartet as well as appearing on several BBC soundtracks and pop backing tracks.

Outside of music, January is a keen horse rider and has taken several national titles in showing and dressage.

Abigail Higgins began learning the cello at the age of eight. After progressing through the various orchestras in her home town of Gloucester and studying at Beauchamp House and GAMPA, she accepted a scholarship to continue her studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where she gained her BA (Hons) degree in Music with distinction. She then went on to accept a place at the Royal College of Music in London and gained her Post Graduate Diploma in performance in solo/ensemble recital.
Whilst at the RWCMD, Abigail was chosen to give a private performance for HRH the Prince of Wales at the opening of the Sir Anthony Hopkins Centre at the Royal Welsh College of Music.

As a freelance cellist, Abigail has performed with many professional orchestras including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Welsh National Opera, Ensemble Cambrica, British Sinfonietta, Welsh Session Orchestra, Fulltone Orchestra and many more. Abigail also performs regularly with the Caradog String Quartet, the Awen Duo and as a session musician, recorded the cello parts for Public Service Broadcastings No.1 album which she then performed at The Albert Hall as part of their orchestra.

As well as having a varied career as a freelance cellist, Abigail is also Orchestra Manager to Ensemble Cambrica, Business Administrator for Thornbury Area Youth Music, teacher of cello, double bass and ensembles coach at The Cathedral School in Llandaff, Head of Strings at St Johns on the Hill, Chepstow and St Michaels School, Llanelli.

Manager of The Caradog String Quartet and Duo.

Born in Caerphilly, Rebecca started playing the violin at the age of eight. After finishing A levels, she continued her studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Soon after graduating in 1997, Rebecca started freelancing with many professional orchestras, chamber ensembles and pit orchestras, including The Amadeus Orchestra, Bristol Ensemble, British Sinfonietta, Ensemble Cambrica, London Concert Orchestra, Welsh Concert Orchestra, West of England Philharmonic, Serendipity, Orbit Theatre Company, and many more. Rebecca has also worked on television productions for HTV and S4C.

Rebecca created The Caradog String Quartet in 2007. Her inspiration came from performances with other string quartets, realising that there was a call for a more modern group that could offer more diversity in the way they play and repertoire.

When not performing, Rebecca teaches at St John’s College, Cardiff and privately at home.

Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in London, Katy has enjoyed a busy career performing with some of the UK’s finest orchestras including The Philharmonia, The BBC Philharmonic and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. She has also worked with artists such as Michael Bublé, Bryan Ferry, Elton John, Take That and Paul Weller.

Rachael began learning the violin at the age of 8. After progressing through various youth orchestras in the North East of England she gained a scholarship place to study at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2007 under the tutelage of Lesley Hatfield.

Since graduating from RWCMD in 2011, Rachael regularly performs as a freelance orchestral violinist with many ensembles including BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Sinfonia Cymru, Welsh Session Orchestra and British Sinfonietta, as well as live television work for BBC Wales and S4C. During her time as a freelance musician she has performed for Her Majesty the Queen, Prince Phillip, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall and has worked with many celebrated artists such as Joshua Bell and Maxim Vengerov.

Rachael also enjoys teaching violin privately and is the violin tutor at Making Music, Changing Lives.