Emanuele Addis, born in 1996 in Sassari, Italy, is currently attending a Master of Arts at Royal Academy of Music in Michael Lewin’s class. Addis stood out in numerous international competitions. To name but a few, he won the 3rd prize at the Brussels International Guitar Competition and the 2nd prize at Plovdiv International Guitar Competition in Bulgaria. Additionally, Addis participated in several solo recitals in both Italy, Germany, Serbia, United Kingdom and Bulgaria, in fact, he performed at the Palazzina Liberty in Milan, at the Senato della Repubblica Italiana in Rome, Italian Institute of Culture in Munich, Germany, Theâtre du Vaudeville in Brussels and at the Treća beogradska in Belgrade.

Shannon-Latoyah Simon is a British classical guitarist and interdisciplinary artist with a keen interest in New and Experimental Music. As well as performing regularly as a soloist, she thoroughly enjoys participating in chamber music and is part of many chamber ensembles. Shannon has been involved in experimental music and audio-visual art for most of her adult life and is consistently working on a series of projects involving art, film, movement, improvisation and electronic sound. She has recently developed a passion for creating deep listening works using her own personal collection of field recordings, which she has compiled over the past 12 years. In 2019 Shannon completed a Masters Degree at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance under the tuition of Graham Anthony Devine. Shannon is an Angelic and Usui Reiki Master Teacher and has recently obtained her degree in Sound Medicine, Sound Therapy and Nāda yoga with the Vibroacoustic Therapy Association.

Bradley Johnson is a guitarist with a specialism in modern repertoire. Composers he has worked with include Philip Cashian, Edward Cowie, Georg Friedrich Haas, and Morgan Hayes. Recent projects include recording the two Guitar pieces commissioned for the Royal Academy of Music’s ‘200 Pieces Bicentenary project’ by Gary Carpenter and David Gorton; for this he was awarded the Bache Fund Prize and the recordings will be released on the Academy’s label in 2022. Future commissions include a piece for Guitar and Harp by Edward Cowie and a Guitar Quartet by Marino Arcaro for the Spectrum Guitar Quartet.

Having started guitar lessons at the age of 11, Hope attended the junior course at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama until she moved to London where she is currently in her 4th year of undergraduate study at the Royal College of Music. Having spent a semester last year studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with Jesper Sivebæk, she will now continue her studies at the RCM with professors Gary Ryan and Chris Stell.

She has received tuition from world class guitarist such as John Mills, Margarita Escarpa, Nigel North, Amanda Cooke and Mark Ashford.

In addition to her solo playing Hope regularly regularly explores chamber music in a duo with fellow RCM guitarist Zoe Barnett, as well as having performed with a guitar quartet.

She has performed at venues including the National Portrait Gallery, How the Light Gets in Literary and Arts Festival, and regularly appears in the RCM’s recital series.x

Sergiu Hudrea is a Romanian guitarist, studying for his Professional Diploma at the Royal Academy of music after completing his master’s degree there earlier this year. He was awarded more than 65 prizes among which 32 were first prizes in international competitions all around Europe and in the USA. In 2018 he was one of the finalists in the popular TV show ‘Romania’s Got Talent’. In 2020, Sergiu won the Blyth Watson Concerto Prize with his performance of the Malcolm Arnold Guitar Concerto. He is now working on both solo and chamber music projects whilst following his passion for teaching.