Biographies

Amphion Consort

Core Players

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Jennifer Bennett
baroque and renaissance violin, viola, viola d'amore and viola da gamba.

Jennifer is a rare example of being equally accomplished on many instruments.
At 16 years of age she was given a grant to study at the prestigious Purcell School of Music, while winning first prize in a series of competitions in the UK.
Highlights from those years include touring as a soloist with the West Sussex Orchestra playing the Bruch violin concerto in Prague and Germany, and performing Malcolm Arnold's double violin concerto in the presence of the composer at the Royal Academy of Music Concert Hall, as well as appearing on BBC radio 3 with her string quartet.
During her first year at the Guildhall School of Music in London she decided to specialize in Early Music which led to studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music in the Hague with Pavlo Beznosiuk.
Jennifer has toured all over the world with the UK's leading baroque orchestras such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Gabrieli Consort, the Academy of Ancient Music and the New London Consort among others and is now devoting her time and passion to her ensemble, the Amphion Consort.

Yair Avidor theorbo, lute and baroque guitar

Yair was born in Tel Aviv where he grew up.
He studied at the Hochschule fur Kunste, Bremen with Stephen Stubbs, was a Fodella Scholarship holder at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan and completed his Masters at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London.
Yair has played continuo with many orchestras and ensembles such as the Academy of Ancient Music, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Scottish Opera, he has recorded with I Barrochisti (Switzerland) and Ensemble Galatea (Italy) and made appearances as soloist and accompanist at the Edinburgh Festival and the fringe of the Utrecht Early Music Festival.
Yair is pursuing a career as a soloist and is working towards his debut recording of music by Robert de Visee on lute, theorbo and baroque guitar.
Apart from early music he finds inspiration in Jazz and Indian music.

Dorian Bandy violin, viola, viola d'amore, harpsichord, fortepiano
Chosen as one of the Los Angeles Times’s “101 Remarkable Young People,” conductor Dorian Komanoff Bandy has garnered acclaim for his “lighthearted mastery over gesture and dramatic development” in performances of 18^th-century opera and orchestral music. He has directed New York-based baroque orchestra Les Petits Violons in a variety of repertoire including Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Haydn’s Sturm und Drang symphonies, as well as operas by Lully, Handel, Purcell and Rousseau. A baroque violinist by day, Dorian has performed as concertmaster and concerto soloist with ensembles across the United States and Europe. He is director of Musica Poetica London, leader and a founder member of the Rococo Consort, and frequent guest of the International Baroque Players, Brecon Baroque (Wales), Ensemble Cordia/Akademie für alte Musik Bruneck (South Tyrol) and baroque chamber ensembles in Valtice and Prague (Czech Republic). He has also worked extensively as a fortepianist, harpsichordist and organist, and is a specialist in the Lieder of Mozart, Haydn and Schubert. He holds a BA summa cum laude in musicology and comparative literature from Cornell University, and is a 2010 recipient of the coveted Marshall Scholarship. For more information, please visit www.doriankomanoffbandy.com.

John Crockatt violin and viola

Dan Tidhar Harpsichord

Dan Tidhar studied harpsichord with Mitzi Meyerson in Berlin and with Ketil
Haugsand in Cologne, and is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at
King's College London. He lives in Cambridge, where he recently founded
Chesterton Baroque. Dan regularly performs as soloist and continuo player
with various groups including Cambridge university Collegium Musicum,
Amphion consort, The King's Consort, and Retrospect.