Alex South studied at Cambridge University before joining the postgraduate performance course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. Graduating in 2002 from the RSAMD, Alex now has a successful freelance career with a strong focus on contemporary chamber music, and has presented over three dozen premieres with the Scottish Clarinet Quartet, Eisd, and Research Ensemble. He also regularly plays and has recorded with Daniel Padden's improvising avant-garde folk group The One Ensemble.

Other recent performances have included James MacMillan's Tuireadh with the Edinburgh Quartet to celebrate the composer's 50th birthday and a concert of the music of Alvin Lucier at Stirling's last ever Le Weekend festival, given with composer David Fennessy.  Alex is a research partner at the Science & Music Research Group at Glasgow University, where he is developing a new microtonal clarinet wind synthesizer with Graham Hair.

“a virtuoso ability” The Herald

“As soloist, Alex South conjured up a full, sweet tone” West Highland Free Press

Oliver Rundell studied at Cambridge University and trained at the National Opera Studio. He was a member of the music staff at Scottish Opera for eight years, and has worked as pianist and conductor for Opera North and the Aldeburgh Festival. As an organist,  Oliver has held positions at Lincoln Cathedral, Paisley Abbey and St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow, with whom he has appeared frequently on 'Songs of Praise' and Radio 4's Daily Service. 

Recent chamber music performances include the UK premiere of a previously unpublished clarinet trio by John Ireland, Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du Temps, performed on what would have been the composer's 100th birthday, and piano trios by Mendelssohn and Beethoven for the inaugural concert of the Beinn Artair piano trio.

"Pianist Oliver Rundell sparkled" The Herald

"Rundell's heroic performance brought out the melodic richness of the music in splendid fashion" The Inverness Courier

"Oliver Rundell's accompaniments were brilliantly sustained" Opera magazine