Jane Gordon, Violin

Jane is a highly versatile violinist, accomplished as a soloist and chamber musician, increasingly in demand as a leader with a specialism in historical performance practices from baroque to classical and early romantic. Her Purcell Room solo debut in 2004, for which she kindly loaned the ‘Kustendyke’ Stradivarius violin from the Royal Academy, received great critical acclaim and she has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Martinu Hall in Prague, Edinburgh Festival (ROSL) and the Stradivarius Festival in Cremona.

Jane was concertmaster for Trevor Pinnock’s EBE Orchestra at the 2009 Halle Handel Fesival in Germany, and is currently performing in ‘Trevor Pinnock & Friends’ concerts in France, Holland, Germany and UK, including at the Wigmore Hall and a live BBC Radio 3 broadcast. In 2010 Jane was concertmaster at Korean National Opera in Seoul with the Retrospect Ensemble. Jane regularly works with many leading period instrument ensembles, including the OAE, Sixteen and Academy of Ancient Music. She has also performed with some of the UK’s finest small ensembles, Aurora Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble and Ensemble 360 and regularly plays IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music Festival.

In 2004/5 Jane won several awards, including the First Prize in the Anglo-Czechoslovak International Competition, string finalist and prize winner of the Royal Over-Seas League Competition, English Speaking Union IMS Prussia Cove Scholarship, and was selected for the Park Lane Young Artist Platform. Jane was a prize-winning scholar at the Royal College of Music with Dona Lee Croft and Mica Comberti (baroque violin) and completed her studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Marianne Thorsen and Simon Standage (baroque), graduating with the Marjorie Hayward Prize, the Beare Violin Prize, and the DipRAM, winning the highest violin award in her year.

Adi Tal, Cello

Since making her solo debut at the age of twelve with the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, Adi Tal has performed concertos with orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, the Haifa Symphony, and the Herzliya Chamber Orchestra. She has collaborated with conductors Thomas Sanderling, Dan Ettinger, Aldo Ceccato and James Judd, performing in prestigious venues such as Wigmore Hall and St. George’s Bristol, and broadcasting on the BBC Radio 3, the Singaporean Radio and Israeli Radio.
Born in Israel in 1986, Adi began cello studies at the age of seven with Hillel Zori. She has also performed in master classes presented by Steven Isserlis, Bernard Greenhouse, Frans Helmerson, Lynn Harrell, Boris Pergamenschikov, Janos Starker, Uzi Wiesel, Ralph Kirshbaum, Natalia Gutman, Philippe Mueller, and Gary Hoffman. Adi is a recipient of scholarships from the America-Israel Foundation, Ronen Foundation, Raphael Sommer Music Trust and Martin Musical Fund.
Adi has participated in the Perlman Music Program and Chamber Music Workshop, Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival, Verbier Academy, Schleswig Holstein Masterclasses, London Masterclasses, Banff Music Festival and IMS Prussia Cove. Adi received her BMus from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with Richard Aaron and completed her postgraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music with Ralph Kirshbaum. In 2008, Adi became the newest member of the Rautio Piano Trio and won the Muriel Taylor Cello Prize in London. Currently Adi is studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno.

Jan Rautio, Piano

Born in Russia, Jan began his musical education at the Gnesin School of Music in Moscow. He was a prize-winning scholar at both the Royal College and Royal Academy of Music in London, graduating in 2005 with top honours. He was awarded the Tobias Matthay Fellowship, the Sterndale Bennett Recital Prize, and the Robert Alva Memorial Prize.
Jan is a critically acclaimed soloist, accompanist (winner of the English Speaking Union Accompanist Prize 2004) and chamber musician. He performs throughout the UK, including Edinburgh and Brighton Festivals, Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Bridgewater Hall; Russia and in Europe, at venues such as Haydn Saal in Vienna and Palazzo Borghese in Rome. His concerto appearances include those of Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich. In 2006 Jan made his USA debut with performances in Charleston, and subsequently was invited to appear in Charleston International Piano Series and Steinway Hall in New York in 2007.