Erland Vestby – Cello   Tom Jesty – Piano

Norwegian cellist Erlend Vestby is in high demand as a chamber musician, frequently performing with small ensembles and chamber orchestras, often as guest principal. This includes Piccadilly Sinfonietta, Obsidian Baroque, Opera Holland Park, Brandenburg Sinfonia and Baroque Soloists, Oxford Bach Soloists, Florilegium, British Sinfonia, Orchestra Nova, the Duchess of Edinburgh String Orchestra, The Duettists, Gothic Opera and Gabrieli. He has been a soloist with various orchestras both in the UK and abroad. As a recitalist he has appeared on Classic FM, the London Festival of Baroque Music and Dart Music Festival. Erlend is a Sinfonia Smith Square alumnus, was on the extras list for the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra when living in Norway, and he enjoyed the professional experience scheme of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in 2022. Erlend is a graduate of the Royal College of Music kindly supported by the Anglo-Norse Society where he studied with Jakob Kullberg and Richard Tunnicliffe. Erlend’s versatile musicality makes him not only a performer, but also a composer, teacher, and a keen researcher and lecturer on early 18^th and early 20^th century performance practices where the music of Bach and Elgar stand central.

Tom Jesty began his musical education by singing as a treble in the Winchester College Chapel Choir. Tom went on to study piano with Nick Salwey at Winchester College, where he gained an FTCL performance diploma, and performed Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto with the school orchestra. In 2021-2023. Tom went on to study music at St Peter’s college Oxford, where he sang as a choral scholar and enjoyed a wealth of duo and chamber opportunities as a collaborative pianist. Tom recently completed a masters course in piano accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied with Pamela Lidiard and Iain Burnside. In March 2023, Tom won the Paul Harmburger Prize for Voice and Piano, accompanying baritone George Robarts. Tom accompanies for the City Chamber Choir, directed by Stephen Jones, and works freelance as a collaborative pianist. He works as music director of St Mary’s church in Islington, and in 2024-2025 he acted as Graduate Fellow in Collaborative Piano at Royal Holloway University.