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Carla Rees - flute/composer • Sarah Thurlow - clarinet 
Alexandra Wood - violin • Oliver Wilson - viola 
Sarah Suckling - cello • Huw Watkins - piano/composer 
Charles Wiffen - piano 

About Contemporary Consort

Contemporary Consort is an ensemble of young, classically trained musicians that specialises in the presentation of music by British composers from 1900 to the present.

Their programmes feature the works of major British composers such as Holst, Britten and Walton, alongside newer music, by both well established and young contemporary composers, thereby integrating the music of three generations through live performance.

Contemporary Consort was formed in 1998 from alumni of the Royal College of Music.
The ensemble comprises a small nucleus of instruments, which is augmented by other instruments (harp, percussion, oboe, bassoon, horn) when necessary.

Contemporary Consort has performed at the Purcell Room in London, and for the BBC Proms Composer Portrait Series at the Royal Albert Hall live on BBC Radio 3 annually since 2002. They have appeared at the Cheltenham, Brighton, and York Late Music Festivals, and for the Mixing Music Series in Bromsgrove, as well as for the Skipton Music Society and the Petworth Festival.. They gave a recital series of British Music at South Hill Park in Berkshire, and they have been an ensemble in residence at the King's Lynn Festival since 2001.

Since 2000 Contemporary Consort has enjoyed a special link with the Royal College of Music, initially as part of the RCM's New Generation Scheme, supported by the Worshipful Company of Musicians and the PRS Foundation, and since 2007 as an Ensemble in Residence to the RCM Composition Faculty. This has enabled Contemporary Consort to give a regular recital series at the RCM for the last seven years, featuring music by students and professors, whilst also giving workshops for undergraduates and collaborating on other special projects. In 2005 they gave the London première of Thomas Adès' new work, Court Studies, at the RCM, which they performed with other Adès works in a BBC Proms Composer Portrait in August 2007.