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Lee graduated in Music from Birmingham University where he studied the cello with Catherine Ardagh-Walter (CBSO) and composition  with Vic Hoyland and Michael Zev-Gordon. He is an experienced cellist, performing with the Sinfonia of Birmingham, Eroica Camerata (principal) and Central England Ensemble. He conducts and tutors the cello for Dudley Performing Arts, and conducts various cello ensembles and local orchestras. As an arranger of music for strings, particularly cello ensembles, he has been commissioned by Birmingham Conservatoire, Oxford Cello School, DuoCello, Dudley Performing Arts, Central England Ensemble and Birmingham Cello Group. He also works full time as a graphic designer for Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Steve graduated from Manchester University with first-class honours, having studied with Bernard Gregor-Smith of the Lindsays. At the RAM he studied for a Master's degree in Performance with Douglas Cummings (LSO). He is cellist of the critically acclaimed Tempest String Quartet, is part-time lecturer and chamber music coach for the University of Birmingham and an examiner for the Associated Board (ABRSM), touring both in the UK and internationally. For many years he has worked on the Oxford Cello School as head of the Adult Improvers Course. Steve has also adjudicated at many festivals and competitions including the BBC Young Musicians Competition, worked under conductors including Sakari Oramo, Mark Elder and Sir Simon Rattle, and performed on Irish, Danish and Swedish radio and BBC Radio 3.

Kwêsi Edman studied at the Royal Academy of Music with David Strange. He has a wealth of solo, orchestral and chamber music performance experience both in the UK and abroad, having played in many of the UK's prestigious concert halls with conductors such as Yan Pascal Tortelier, Sir Roger Norrington, Paul Daniel and Tadaaki Otaka. Kwesi is a member of the Presmaki piano and cello duo and has been the director of the OCS Junior Course since 2001. He is also a freelance teacher in London.

Helena studied the cello with Anna Shuttleworth and Joan Dickson at the Royal College of Music in London. She then moved to Germany and remained there for a  period of ten years, working  with several professional orchestras, including Mannheim, Kassel and Frankfurt. Since returning to the UK, Helena has embarked on a career as teacher and performer. She is currently Head of the MusicDepartment in Sheldon Heath School, but is moving to King Edwards Five Ways School in September, where she will continue to combine her work as a music teacher with regular playing in the  Birmingham area. Helena is the mother of three grown up children, all of whom have become keen amateur musicians.