Sophie Lockett leads the Cavell Quartet which she co-founded in 2006. The quartet has performed in the UK, including concerts at Wigmore Hall and in the prestigious opening festival at Kings Place, and in France. As well as directing York Young Soloists and giving workshops throughout the country with the Philharmonia's Elastic Band Sophie has performed in concert and on television with McFly, Lemar and John Barrowman. Sophie was a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music where she studied with Yossi Zivoni, previously attending the Purcell School where she studied with Erik Houston. Her passion for chamber music was kindled at an early age while attending Pro Corda and MusicWorks chamber music courses. Sophie appears regularly with the London Chamber Orchestra and also plays with the London Symphony Orchestra, English Touring Opera, the Hallé and English National Opera. She has been playing with the Barbican Piano Trio since 2009.
 

Robert Max enjoys a colourful career as soloist, chamber-musician and conductor. He performs as a soloist throughout the UK, in Europe, Russia and the USA and has been the cellist of the Barbican Piano Trio since 1987. In 2003 he performed in the Sangat chamber music festival in Mumbai and in 2009 he was invited to coach and perform at Domaine Forget in Canada. Robert is Musical Director of the Oxford Symphony Orchestra and conducts the Royal Holloway, University of London Symphony Orchestra. As well as regular performances with the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra and the Arad Philharmonic Orchestra in western Romania, Robert has conducted the Oradea and Kazakh State Philharmonic Orchestras, the London Chamber Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Robert studied with Florence Hooton at the RAM, Ralph Kirshbaum at the RNCM and Zara Nelsova at the Juilliard School. He teaches cello at the Junior Academy, coaches chamber music at MusicWorks and is principal cellist of the London Chamber Orchestra. In October 2002 he was named an Honorary Professor of the Rachmaninov Institute in Tambov, Russia. He plays a Stradivarius cello dating from 1726 known as the "Comte de Saveuse".
 

James Kirby gives recitals throughout the UK and has appeared at Wigmore Hall, Edinburgh and Aldeburgh festivals and overseas in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Holland and the Czech Republic. Having studied at the Moscow Conservatoire he returns to perform in the former Soviet Union every year, highlights including invitations to perform at the Sakharov Festival in Nizhny Novgorod and the Omsk Festival. He has given concerto performances with the English and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, the Moscow, Khazakh and Belorussian Symphony Orchestras and the Arad and Oradea Philharmonic Orchestras at venues including the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire. He has performed both Brahms Concertos in Russia and Romania. As well as being a member of the Barbican Piano Trio since 1992, James has worked with the Vanburgh Quartet, the BBC Singers, Lydia Mordkovitch and the mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and has made two recordings for Chandos. He teaches at the Royal Welsh College in Cardiff, Royal Holloway, University of London and is an Honorary Professor at the Rachmaninov Institute in Tambov, Russia. James has served on the Juries of several international Piano competitions, most recently in Romania, Latvia, Russia and Slovenia.