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Recognised as one of Australia’s finest singers, Lily Dior has shared the stage with a remarkable list of outstanding musicians from Australia and around the world and has performed at many of Australia's best venues including The Opera House Concert Hall, The State Theatre and the Sydney Town Hall. She has been a featured artist with Dave Matthew's Manhattan Jazz Quartet (Victor Lewis, Charnett Moffat, Lew Soloff) as well as Oscar Castro Neves and his all star band for Sydney Festival (Airto Moriera, Alex Acuna, Abe Laboriel, Don Grusin, Gary Meeks) and was invited to sit in with her mentor, the late great Mark Murphy, while studying in New York many years ago. A finalist at The National Jazz Awards she is also an experienced radio personality and three time host of The Freedman Fellowship Jazz Awards held yearly at The Studio, Sydney Opera House. Before moving to London Lily hosted a weekly program on Sydney's Eastside Radio for 15 years and interviewed such luminaries as Ron Carter, Fred Wesley, Cassandra Wilson, Lizz Wright, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Marcos Valle, Kurt Elling, Lulo Reinhart and Norma Winstone. The daughter of professional musicians who met and married in London, Lily spent her first five years touring South East Asia with her parents who later settled in Australia. Returning to her roots Lily has very quickly established herself as an in demand performer appearing regularly at iconic jazz venues such as Ronnie Scott’s, The 606 Club, The Bull’s Head, Pizza Express, Toulouse Lautrec and now closed ‘The Hideaway’. A featured artist at Spice Of Life the last two years, selling out both shows as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival, she has recently toured Italy and Sicily and previously been invited to perform a couple of times at the Budapest Jazz Club with an all star Hungarian band. With a voice that dances effortlessly between jazz and soul Lily brings a fresh and exciting approach to her music, imbuing her songs with deep meaning and inviting the listener on a journey through her rich expressive voice and warm stage presence.

"Since Australian vocalist Lily Dior arrived on the London scene she's been going from strength to strength and amassing a reputation as an exciting live performer and versatile singer who works across genres including jazz, groove and soul" 606 Club

"She can belt out a song, dramatize a lyric, swing hard and earthy, flirt, sing a tender song - Lily can ‘tell a story’ “ ABC Australia

“Dior’s voice has the depth, control and clarity of Gregory Porter” Kind Of Jazz

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Martina is a versatile flute player and enthusiastic teacher from the Czech Republic. She trained in Classical Flute and Jazz Flute Performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has freelanced with orchestras, touring the UK with Czech National Symphony Orchestra, or Scandinavia with City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, and playing flute and piccolo in theatre pits in ballet and opera productions. Exploring her interest in groove and improvising, she is currently specialising in Brazilian music, performing with Rhythms of the City samba band as a percussionist and with Offbeat Collective as a flautist.

She has taught students of different levels and ages, helping them achieve their musical goals and discover their creative potential. She has lead creative music workshops for The Music FunDation in Prague and taught a seminar on Creativity in Music at the Teplice Conservatoire.

Award winning saxophonist and recorder player Tom Ridout was predicted by Jazzwise Magazine in 2012 as an upcoming jazz musician to watch out for. A finalist in the 2016 BBC Young Musician Jazz Award, graduate from the prestigious Royal Academy of Music, winner of the Lancaster Jazz Festival Youth Jazz Commission 2018, Help Musicians Peter Whittingham Jazz Awardee 2021, and a recent member of NYJO, Tom is a prolific composer who fronts his own bands playing his original compositions.

British-Polish recorder player Olivia Petryszak is a graduate of bachelors from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she received a 1st Class Honours Bachelors degree in 2022 with added Concert Recital Diploma award for outstanding performance. She also spent 2 years studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and subsequently completed a masters degree at the Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie in Poland. Through her study she has been lucky to study under some of the best recorder players in the world, principally Erik Bosgraaf. She has been lucky to learn, through lessons and masterclasses, with other renowned players such as Maurice Steger, Daniel Brüggen, Karel van Steenhoven and Dorothee Oberlinger, among others.
Through a heavily creative musical upbringing, creativity and flexibility remains present and highly important in Olivia’s playing, and her musical spontaneity has helped to create a highly distinctive and unique style. Olivia is active not only as a performer of early music, but also works frequently across genres as an improviser, composer, arranger and collaborator, priding herself on a unique ability to mold the sound of the recorder to the situation, and thus proving its place among other contemporary instruments in the new music scene today.
Olivia is acquiring an ever-growing list of prolific venues where she has played across Europe, including Snape Maltings Concert Hall, the Barbican Centre, Splendor Amsterdam, Abbey Road Studios and Shakespeare’s Globe. Her love for opera has so far landed her spots in performances of Venus and Adonis (Blow), La descente d’Orphée aux enfers (Charpentier) and Judicium Salomonis (Carissimi) in Milton Court Theatre, an Olivier award-winning production of Noye’s Fludde (Britten) with the English National Opera, and, most recently, performances of Rinaldo (Händel) with the Polska Opera Królewska in Warsaw and subsequently Zagreb.
Aside from her performance successes, Olivia is highly proactive in improving the reputation of the recorder worldwide. Following a particularly successful dissertation entitled Make the Recorder Great Again!, Olivia has published several articles in recorder magazines across Europe, and is working hard to maintain efforts to prove the quality and beauty of the instrument. Part of this efforts has been to contribute to the new music being written for the instrument - both through her own compositions, and those she has commissioned for the instrument; the most recent being When Sanity Visits (Adam Possener, 2019), Home Improvements (James Allen, 2021), Floodlines (Jay Richardson, 2022) and Assembling Strata (Cameron Scott, 2023).

Reuben Fowler is a 27 year old jazz trumpet player, composer, arranger and teacher based in London. He is currently the trumpet player for Paloma Faith and Culture Club, and has also performed with an array of artists including Noel Gallagher and Texas. As a result he has performed at some of the most coveted venues and festivals worldwide including the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, The Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles), the New Orleans Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Glastonbury and the North Sea Jazz Festival. Reuben has also worked extensively as a session musician and his performing credits include the BBC Big Band. Worldwide, he has played on broadcasts including: Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny, The Jimmy Kimmel Show, The Jonathan Ross Show, Alan Carr Chatty Man, Taratata, and Live at the Palladium.

Reuben Fowler graduated in 2012 from the Royal Academy of Music, winning the Kenny Wheeler Award for composition and performance and the Musicians Benevolent Peter Whittingham Award. He also won the John Baker Memorial Award for brass.

Following the online success of the Facebook page Trumpet Tuesday; which is co- managed by Reuben alongside two other Royal Academy of Music alumni, he was asked to lead a group masterclass for the jazz and classical brass students at his alma- mater in 2016. Prior to this, he had also taught the Jazz Ensemble at the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. 

In 2013 Reuben Fowler wrote and arranged, rehearsed and recorded his own big band as part of a trans-atlantic recording project called Between Shadows, featuring jazz legends Tom Harrell, Stan Sulzmann and Jim Hart. The project later resulted in Fowler being cited: "...maybe the most exciting and accomplished trumpeter to emerge on the British Jazz scene.."