Antony Pitts is an international composer, conductor, producer, and recipient of the Radio Academy BT Award, the Prix Italia, and a Cannes Classical Award. A Chapel Royal treble, Academic and Honorary Senior Scholar at New College, Oxford, founder-director of British ensemble TONUS PEREGRINUS, Senior Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, and Senior Producer at BBC Radio 3, he made his Glastonbury Festival debut in 2014, and from 2016 to 2022 led Australia’s The Song Company as Artistic Director, afterwards establishing TONUS AUSTRALIS. In 2023, he was appointed as the inaugural Willam Byrd Fellow and Ambassador at Excelsia College in Sydney. Commissioned for Alexander Litvinenko, Cheltenham Festival, King’s College London, New College Oxford, Rundfunkchor Berlin, The Swingles, Westminster Cathedral, and many others, with premières of his music in London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and Berlin’s Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal, and album releases on 1equalmusic, Challenge Records, Delphian, Hyperion, Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, Novum, Signum, and Unknown Public, including the Missa Unitatis and the oratorio-musical Jerusalem-Yerushalayim. Critical acclaim for Antony’s music tends towards hyperbole: “...My first impulse on hearing this disc was to commend it unreservedly to each and every man, woman, and child on the planet”. Sydney Philharmonia Choirs commissioned his 50-part motet, XLX – Mente cordis sui, which was premièred at Sydney Opera House. TONUS PEREGRINUS released Antony’s monumental Requiem for the Time of the End on 1equalmusic in June 2025, as the album One Equal Music; he is working on a music theatre piece with Adrian Self called The Process, while developing a compositional process of ‘murmuration’. www.antonypitts.com

Sadaharu Muramatsu is music director of the Excelsia Chamber Orchestra and a conductor and lecturer at Excelsia University College, artistic director of the Strathfield Symphony Orchestra and of Symphonia Jubilate, and a conductor of the Sydney Youth Orchestras and the Western Sydney Youth Orchestra. He has also conducted the Penrith Symphony Orchestra, the Rockdale Opera Company, and Sydney Camerata, and in Japan the Nagoya Philharmonic and the Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra. He took a Master of Music in conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and then held a fellowship at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under the Japanese Government’s Overseas Study Programme for Artists, studying with Imre Pallo, Kurt Masur, Sir Mark Elder, Hirofumi Misawa, and Kazuki Sawa. He holds an honorary doctorate in music from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, and has received the Consul-General of Japan’s Commendation in Sydney, the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation, and recognition from the New South Wales State Parliament for his contribution to music in Strathfield.

Joanna Forbes L’Estrange is a British vocalist, choral composer and choir director. Born into a family of eminent professional musicians, she grew up in Surrey, singing as a chorister in her local parish church choir and studying the piano and cello. After graduating with a Master of Arts music degree from Oxford University her career began with seven years at the helm of the five-time Grammy® award-winning jazz vocal group The Swingle Singers. For twenty years she has been sharing her choral jazz expertise by coaching choirs with her popular workshop You can sing…but can you swing?!. Specialising in contemporary ‘crossover’ music, Joanna receives regular engagements to be the soloist for Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert and Mass in Blue by Will Todd (which she recorded for the Convivium record label) and to perform works by Steve Reich, John Adams, Stockhausen and Berio. Her distinctive, high soprano vocals can be heard on over 300 film soundtracks, most notably in a duet with Jarvis Cocker for The French Dispatch. She is one half of the jazz duo L’Estranges in the Night and television credits include Fleabag which featured her Andrews Sisters-inspired song You Are. The international popularity of Joanna’s choral compositions has been attributed to the composer’s belief that new music doesn’t have to be difficult to be effective. Her mission to create a body of well-crafted music which every choir can sing has been described as “an integrity of purpose which infuses every musical phrase that Forbes L’Estrange writes” (BBC Music). Most evident is her focus on melody, leading to reviews such as “a sublime blend of catchy and comforting” (Hyperion), “full of delicious ear-worms” (Gramophone) and “Forbes L’Estrange seems to have been born with catchy melodies coursing through her veins” (BBC Music). Composed to mark the coronation of King Charles III, Joanna’s anthem The mountains shall bring peace was sung by over 600 choirs across five continents and established her as one of the RSCM’s best-selling composers. This and many more of her sacred and secular pieces have been recorded by London Voices on two albums, Heaven to Earth and Winter Light, both released on the Signum record label. Her largest, most ambitious work to date is A Season to Sing, a choral re-imagining of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. In collaboration with her husband Alexander L’Estrange, she has also composed three 40-minute cantatas for their award-winning series of works for SATB choir, unison children’s choir and instrumental quintet. Joanna is an ambassador for Harmony Across Borders, a new choir competition which champions music by female composers. She founded and for five years directed the Cambridge-based, women’s choir AQUILA and has composed many songs for upper voice choirs in support of gender equality, including A Woman (Wearing Bloomers) on a Wheel, made into a film by the National Youth Girls’ Choir. With her charity single Twenty-first- century Woman Joanna made history by organising and conducting the first all-female recording session ever to have taken place at London’s iconic Abbey Road Studios. www.joannaforbeslestrange.com/

Alexandra Mowday was born in Durban in 1981 and has lived and worked in Sydney since 2009, where she left a career in architecture to work as a designer and artist. She sings classical music with great enthusiasm, and loves the late Romantic period above all.

Lotte Latukefu is an Associate Professor and Head of the School of Creative and Performing Arts at Excelsia University College, and a mezzo-soprano. She studied at the Canberra School of Music and at the Manhattan School of Music, and took her doctorate at the University of Wollongong with a thesis on a socio-cultural approach to the teaching and learning of singing. She lectured in the Faculty of Creative Arts at Wollongong for eighteen years before joining Excelsia, and held a research fellowship at the Royal Northern College of Music. Her research covers portfolio-career training for creative-arts students, collaborative learning, and practice-led research in music. As a singer she has given many Australian and world premieres of new works, and has recorded for the Wirripang label.

Luke Pitts is a Sydney-based tenor specialising in choral, consort, and early music singing. He is currently studying Music at the University of Sydney and is a Choral Scholar at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, where he has sung as both Chorister and Scholar since 2016 under the direction of Thomas Wilson, Daniel Justin, and Richard Butler. Luke has also sung with St Andrew’s Cathedral Choir, Sydney Conservatorium Chamber Choir, and TONUS AUSTRALIS, with work spanning early and contemporary music, consort and solo repertoire, recording, and workshop mentoring. He has performed internationally in England, Italy, and Belgium, in venues including St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Peter’s Basilica, the Duomo di Siena, the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, and the International Gregorian Chant Festival in Watou. Alongside performance, Luke has assisted in TONUS AUSTRALIS workshops, helping mentor amateur singers in early music and original notation. He is also a regular cantor at Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral, Waitara, where he assists the Cathedral Choir and supports the growth and development of the Cathedral Youth Choir. Luke first sang with TONUS PEREGRINUS as part of TPII next-generation artists in 2019, and joined them for public performances from the original notation of the Eton Choirbook in Oxford and London in 2026.

Simon Hewitt Jones is an English violinist, born in 1982 into a musical family: he is a grandson of the composer Tony Hewitt-Jones and a brother of the composer Thomas Hewitt Jones. He is Director of ViolinSchool, a researcher at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and Artistic Director of Music and the City. He has played at the Henley and Spitalfields festivals, and in 2011 gave the Beethoven Violin Concerto in Jerusalem with the Ramallah Orchestra under Diego Masson, having co-curated Road to Jericho, a tour of contemporary British and Palestinian music. As a session violinist in London he has recorded for the BBC, EMI, Virgin, and Universal, and has played for Massive Attack, Elton John, and Ed Sheeran. He co-founded the independent classical label Court Lane Music, whose first release, the string chamber music of Imogen Holst, won a BBC Music Magazine award in 2010.

Alexander L’Estrange (b.1974) is an award-winning British choral composer, arranger and workshop leader of international acclaim. Educated at Oxford, first as a chorister in New College Choir and later at Merton College, he gained a First Class Honours Master of Arts degree in Music. His compositional voice is characterised by his love for jazz harmony and groove (he is a professional jazz pianist and double bassist as well as a jazz examiner and trainer for the ABRSM) and his background in the English choral tradition. Known for his charismatic and engaging leadership style, L’Estrange presents his music at the annual ACDA conference in the States. L’Estrange is best known for his series of large-scale choral works which draw together singers of all ages across the community. The first of these was Zimbe! Come sing the songs of Africa!, a 40-minute fusion of African song and jazz, which received over 150 performances worldwide within its first five years, establishing his reputation as one of Britain’s most popular living composers. Zadok Rules – Hallelujah! , commissioned by the Hanover Band to commemorate the 60th anniversary for Queen Elizabeth II’s reign, is based on Royal music through the ages; Ahoy! Sing for the Mary Rose is an uplifting fusion of sea shanties and Tudor music, commissioned to mark the opening of the Mary Rose Museum; Song Cycle: vive la vélorution! was commissioned for the 2014 grand départ in Yorkshire of the Tour de France, its ten entertaining songs telling the story of cycling; Wassail! Carols of Comfort and Joy, for which he won the Music Teachers Award for Best Classical Education Initiative in 2018, is a joyous sequence of Christmas songs from the folk tradition and; most recently, Freedom! The power of song, written in collaboration with his wife Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, celebrates the role of singing to effect positive change in the world. With the exception of Zadok, each of these works is scored for an SATB choir, unison children’s choir and jazz quintet. Many of L’Estrange’s sacred choral works have been recorded by the award-winning chamber choir Tenebrae, conducted by Nigel Short, on a disc entitled On Eagles’ Wings (SIGNUM label.) His song output includes Love’s Philosophy, three stunning settings of poems by Shelley, Tennyson and Byron, currently on the ABRSM Singing Syllabus, and Winter Songs, another collaboration with Joanna, commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Finchley Children’s Music Group. Most recent is a setting of three movements from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran for unaccompanied 8-part choir. L’Estrange is the go-to arranger for world-class a cappella groups including The Swingles, Voces 8 and The King’s Singers, for whom he wrote and produced the acclaimed Great American Songbook album. As Consultant Editor of Faber Music’s popular Choral Basics series, he has written hundreds of arrangements of songs from across the musical spectrum. Television credits include the theme tune for the popular CBeebies programme Magic Hands. www.alexanderlestrange.com/