Gina Southgate is best known on the international jazz scene where she produces spectacular, qualitative, real time paintings. For over three decades she’s painted at gigs and festivals capturing the vitality and nuance in her unique portraits of world class musicians.

Benedict Taylor is a leading figure within contemporary composition, modern string performance and improvised music in the British and European new music world. The central focus of his work is in new composition for live performance, film, theatre, contemporary dance, art installation and electro-acoustic composition. In performance, he predominantly works within improvisation, new composition and 20th/21st century music.

Roger Turner has been working as an improvising percussionist since the early 1970’s, collaborating in numerous established and ad hoc configurations.

Phil Wachsmann is regarded by many as an outstanding improviser of great invention, able to create new approaches within improvised music utilising acoustic and electronic sources.

Alex Ward is a composer, improviser and performing musician (primarily on clarinet and guitar) based in London. He leads various ensembles under the heading of the Item Series to perform his compositions for improvising musicians, and he is a member of many other groups including legendary rock band Pere Ubu.

Mark Wastell is a versatile improvising musician who has played a central role in the British improvised music scene for over a quarter of a century.

London based saxophonist Colin Webster is quickly establishing himself on the European avant garde scene. Collaborating with some of the key figures in improvised and experimental music, Webster is known for working from extreme sonic palettes – from minimal to maximal, constantly pushing boundaries.

Veryan Weston is best-known for his work with such British musicians as saxophonist Lol Coxhill, vocalist Phil Minton and Trevor Watts who he is still working with in the ‘Dialogues’ duo as well as their current trio – ‘Eternal Triangle’ having recently released two CDs - “Gravity” and in Netherlands “Moving On”.