Breton Harpist Nikolaz Cadoret is a multifaceted musician. He studied traditional music and the Celtic harp and also graduated from the Zurich Hochschule in classical harp. A prizewinner at prestigious international competitions, he was an orchestral harpist in Germany, notably as Principal Harp at the Komische Oper Berlin.

He is also part of a generation of musicians interpreting Breton music in new ways. Since January 2013, Nikolaz has been Professor of Artistic Education at the Brest Conservatory, where he teaches traditional and classical music, and improvisation. He is Visiting Professor at the Norges Musikkhøgskole in Oslo (electric harp and cross disciplinary performance practice), and artist in residence at the Brittany Pays de la Loire Higher Education Centre. He regularly gives masterclasses in Europe and the United States.

Alannah Thornburgh is an award-winning harpist from the wild west of Ireland. Alannah’s music explores her family heritage, reimagining melodies from the Irish harping and American folk & jazz traditions. This cross-genre interaction and juxtaposition of old melodies with contemporary harmonies and technique is interwoven throughout her music, described as being ‘unforced, fluid and utterly at home in her own sound’ (The Irish Times).

Alannah was awarded ‘Best Folk Instrumentalist’ at the 2025 RTÉ Folk Awards and was also awarded Musician-In-Residence at Carnegie Library, Fingal County Council / Music Network ’. Alannah also received the Traditional Arts Bursary 2025 for her collaborative compositional project ‘An t-Alltar’, due for release in 2027. 

Amy Turk is a multi-genre harpist, arranger, composer and session artist from the UK. With special interests in percussion, video game music, film music and popular music of all styles, Amy has created a unique career path through her presence online, pioneering compositions and arrangements for solo harp and ensembles.

For over a decade Amy's fascination with percussion has led her to push the boundaries of the harp's potential. Using YouTube as her main platform Amy has created a worldwide audience for her music, responding to the demand for pop, rock, film and video game arrangements, and spearheading the transformation of the harp into a percussive instrument with her original compositions.

Romy Wymer is a Glasgow-based harp player and composer, originally from the Netherlands. Her music draws from traditional folk music, jazz and minimalism.

Romy studied traditional music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she graduated with first class honours. Since then, she was awarded second place and the audience award in the World Harp Competition 2021 for her programme Lore..

Romy writes and plays with harp trio The Willow Trio, who have released their EP 'Oystercatchers', folk ballet 'Eala Shàilein', and most recently their second album 'the Bestiary', full of brand-new material for their unique instrumentation. She has also appeared on Glasgow jazz collective Azamiah's debut album 'In Phases' and a range of other albums.