Carol Attwood Having learned recorder from a young age, Carol later continued her musical journey on classical guitar. An interest in early music led her to rediscover the exciting possibilities of the recorder, and she has since gained wide-ranging experience as both recorder player and percussionist in repertoire spanning several centuries.
Dom Cesarz
Maria Danishvar
Matt Davies
Rick Fitzsimmons developed an interest in singing at school, both in the chapel choir and in several large-scale choral works. Graduating from Bath University, he settled in the West Country and sang with various local choirs. More recently he has performed as a soloist with choirs and choral societies across the region. Recent focus has been small vocal ensembles, founding the Bath-based vocal octet Vox8. With Bath Opera, he played Baron Douphol in La Traviata (2015), Schaunard in La Bohème (2018) and Valentin in Faust (2020). He was Valens in a semi-staged concert performance of Handel’s oratorio Theodora (2019). Rick also enjoys playing Renaissance wind instruments – cornetts, shawms, dulcians, recorders and crumhorns, forming the Favonius Collective in 2019.
Heather Jenne Heather’s early music career started when she sneaked out of boarding school to go to a WEA (Workers Educational Association) evening class in early music. On moving to Bristol she started playing recorders with the Court of Pie Poudre for Tudor Banquets and performed for several years with Good Companie. The early music passion has since developed into singing in chamber choirs and playing sackbut and crumhorns, including making (most of) a bass crumhorn.
Amelia Jones
Isabel Jones Isabel plays fute and piano and studied music at Dartington College of Arts. Her interest in contemporary and world music was formed whilst at Dartington, and whilst there she also had the fortune of learning the shakuhachi and playing the Balinese gamelan. Today, alongside Mosaic Five, Isabel also plays the flute in contemporary music ensemble, CoMA Bristol.
Marian Mullen
Cypress Newton Cypress started playing the clarinet around the age of 11. She studied music at Bath Spa University where her main focus was on performance and composition. Here, she gained a huge interest in playing a range of music and was involved in ensembles such as gamelan, samba drumming, Classical/Georgian orchestras, wind ensemble, and a contemporary music group. She now plays in contemporary music group, CoMA Bristol, and is one of the newer members of Mosaic. In her spare time, she also enjoys arranging music from her favourite video games for fun, and is currently developing her skills in using amplified clarinet and effects.
Tim Senior Currently an academic researcher at the University of the West of England, Tim’s work focuses on Knowledge Exchange across the arts, humanities and sciences. He has a background in cello (modern and baroque), piano, and crumhorn, and has been a member of the Cambridge University Music Society’s first orchestra, a long-standing cello-section-leader of the Oxford University Philharmonia, and has performed frequently with the Oxford Millennium Orchestra and OU Graduate Philharmonia.
Steve Walter A former teacher and performer of the classical guitar, Steve has long been the driving force behind the varied groups of ‘Music at Number 11’. Steve has had a long standing interest in early music forming the Bristol based group Tamburrini in 1997, superseded by Rosafresca in 2009. Stepping back from performing in 2024, Steve is enjoying a renewed focus on composition. He is also making arrangements for Mosaic and exploring new and exciting repertoire for Rosafresca and Baroque and Beyond.
Ben Westley Ben learned piano from a young age, later switching to violin at primary school. He holds a diploma in violin performance and has extensive experience as an orchestral violinist and, on occasion, violist. A passing interest in the recorder unexpectedly became a full-blown obsession and Ben now regularly performs on this instrument with Baroque and Beyond as well as the Pink Noise Recorder Quintet.