Mary Elliott has performed as a soloist throughout the United Kingdom, giving concerts in such venues as the Purcell Room, Mercers Hall as well as in her home country, Wales, where she was born in 1985. She has also performed as a soloist in France, Switzerland, Tunisia, the United States and in Thailand for the Thai royal family and has played concertos with the Jupiter Orchestra and the Guildford Symphony Orchestra. She is the recipient of the Una Clarke, Elizabeth Evans and Ryan Davies Memorial awards and the Amy Lindley Prize for Cellists.
Mary studied the 'cello at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Louise Hopkins and then with Hannah Roberts at the Royal Northern College of Music, from which she graduated with first class honours in 2008. She has participated in masterclasses with Mstistslav Rostropovich, Bernard Greenhouse, Gary Hoffman, Colin Carr, Ralph Kirshbaum, Liwei Qin and Timothy Eddy. She is currently studying with Patrick Demenga at the Conservatoire de Lausanne in Switzerland for a master's degree.
A passionate chamber musician, Mary has performed in the Spitalfields, Wyastone, Gower, Lake District Summer Music and Pennine Spring Music festivals, as well as at St John Smith Square, St Martin in the Fields, Mansion House and Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow. While at the Royal Northern College of Music she was awarded first prize in the Terence Weil, Leonard Hirsch and Granada competitions and with her piano trio she was a prize-winner at the Anglo-Czechoslovak competition in London. She has recently returned from Denmark where she gave several concerts as part of the Thy Chamber Music Festival.
As an orchestral musician she has performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Buckingham Palace (with the Philharmonia Orchestra) and at the Royal Albert Hall under the baton of Mstislav Rostropovich. She has also taken part in the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland. In 2008 she was invited by Pierre Amoyal to become a member of Camerata de Lausanne, touring Russia and Singapore and performing regularly in Switzerland, Italy and and France.
Her concert Forbidden But Not Forgotten: Music Suppressed By The Third Reich was recently broadcast live on Radio Suisse Romande.
Mary frequently gives concerts in aid of various charities including Doctors without Borders, the Red Cross, Save the Children and Thare Machi Initiative. She has lead workshops and concerts for hospices and care homes such as Great Ormond Street Hospital and Helen House, Oxford.
Mary plays a French cello made in 1847 by Joseph Charotte.
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David McCarroll has performed as a soloist with the London Mozart Players, Santa Rosa Symphony, Marin Symphony, Longwood Symphony, North State Symphony, Symphony of the Redwoods, and the Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra. He has appeared in many venues throughout the U.K. including Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, St. Johns, Smith Square, and Fairfield Halls.
He is a laureate of the Klein International Competiton (USA), Windsor Festival International String Competition (UK), and Michael Hill International Violin Competition (New Zealand) and has given performances in Switzerland, Tunisia, Thailand, England, Wales, Scotland, and the United States. An active chamber musician, he has played in many chamber ensembles with musicians including Miriam Fried, Ida Levin, Anthony Marwood, Paul Katz, Bonnie Hampton, Natasha Brofsky, Atar Arad, Katherine Murdock, Maria Lambros, and Seth Knopp.
Festival appearances include Marlboro Music, Ravinia