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Jennifer Bennett
baroque and renaissance violin, viola and flute; viola da gamba and double bass.
 
 
 

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One of the most exceptional musicians of her generation, Jennifer is a rare example of being equally accomplished on many instruments.
Jennifer's incredible talent was reconised early on when she was given a grant to study at the prestigious Purcell School of Music, while winning first prizes in a series of competitions in the UK. She was a string finalist in the Young Musician of the Year Competition.
Highlights from those years include touring as a soloist with the West Sussex Orchestra in Prague and Germany, and playing Malcolm Arnold's double violin concerto in the presence of the composer at the Royal Academy of Music Concert Hall, as well as appearing on BBC radio 3 with her string quartet.
During her first year at the Guildhall School of Music in London she decided to specialize in Early Music which led to studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music in the Hague.
Already as a student she found much of the early music current practice too dogmatic and at times at odds with the artistic freedom as exemplified in many baroque treatises and endeavors to follow her own musical instincts and aesthetic ideals.
 
Jennifer has toured all over the world with the UK's leading baroque orchestras such as Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Gabrieli Consort, the Academy of Ancient Music and the New London Consort among others and is now devoting her time and passion to her ensemble, Amphion.
 
She has recently been on the international faculty of the festival La Musica del Pasado de America in Caracas, Venezuala as professor of baroque string playing.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yair Avidor
renaissance and baroque lutes, theorbo
 

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Yair was born in Tel Aviv where he grew up.
He studied at the Hochschule fur Kunste, Bremen with Stephen Stubbs, was a winner of the Fodella Foundation Scholarship to study in Italy and completed his Masters at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London.
Yair has played continuo with many orchestras and ensembles such as the Academy of Ancient Music, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Opera, I Barrochisti and ensemble Galatea.
Yair is pursuing a career as a soloist and is working towards his debut recording of French theorbo music. 
 
Apart from early music he finds inspiration in Jazz and Indian music.