Piano

Piano - Peter Evans
Peter Evans studied piano with Elizabeth Hazlett, with Colin Kinglsey at Edinburgh University and with Hans Graf at the Vienna Hochschule. He has performed as a soloist and in many duos and ensembles throughout Great Britain including the Aldeburgh and Edinburgh Festivals, London's South Bank and the Wigmore Hall, as well as in Europe, the USA, the former Soviet Republic and Japan. He has made over 60 broadcasts for BBC Radio and has also recorded for BBC Television and Swedish and French Radio.  He has made recordings with the cellists William Conway, Steven Isserlis and Alexander Baillie and he enjoys a particularly close association with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, with whom he has recorded on many occasions.

Piano - Barbara Strawa-Payne, MA Hon, PhD
Barbara studied at the H Wieniawski Music School and subsequently studied in the K Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz, Poland, where she achieved a First Class MA Honour Degree as a concert pianist, and her PhD. For 13 years she worked in the Academy of Music and the University of Lodz and she was playing concert in Europe, Russia, South Africa, USA, Asia and the Middle East as a soloist and a chamber musician. Her teachers were Z Drzewiecki, R Bakst, A Vebersinke (Germany) and T Nikalajeva (Russia).