Emma Smith started playing the violin using the Suzuki Method at the age of three and progressed to the Centre for Young Musicians, London, where she studied with Oliver Butterworth and was leader of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra. While studying at Trinity College of Music with Gina McCormack and Patricia Calnan, she led all the College orchestras and won numerous prizes for both her performance skills and musicianship, notably the Silver Medal in her final year. Having studied jazz with Julian Arguelles and Ian Carr she has been involved in many diverse, improvisatory projects. She has recorded with a number of artists, such as Polar Bear, Hot Chip, TY and Robert Mitchell and she appears as a soloist on Arguelles’ album As Above, So Below. Emma currently plays in the contemporary jazz string group Basquiat Strings with renowned jazz cellist Ben Davis. She can also be spotted playing a variety of random instruments with the bands Adem and Screamer On The Hill.

Laura Moody was born in 1978 and took up the cello at the age of seven in an attempt to curb her hyperactive behaviour. Having found some composure she went on to graduate from the University of York in 1999 with first class honours in Music, and then in 2002 from Trinity College of Music where she was awarded distinction for the Advanced Diploma as well as the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize for Cello. She has studied with Alexander Baillie and Natalia Pavlutskaya, and taken master classes with Karine Georgian, Raphael Wallfisch and Paul Watkins. Between 2001 and 2003 Laura was principal cello of the Britten-Pears Orchestra and Britten-Pears Contemporary Music Group. Laura has always had a passion for contemporary music and has premiered new works at the Aldeburgh Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Battersea Arts Centre and York Electroacoustic Studios. As an improviser she has performed and recorded with jazz pianist Keith Tippett, breakbeat klezmer band Oi-Va-Voi and legendary bassist Herbie Flowers. In 2003 she was invited to become a member of physical theatre group The Gogmagogs and, like Jennymay, has since toured with them nationally and internationally. Laura also teaches cello at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Born in 1979, Jennymay Logan studied violin and piano at the Royal College of Music Junior Department from the age of eleven. She then pursued her studies at Trinity College of Music with John Crawford and Gina McCormack of the Sorrell Quartet, graduating with First Class Honours in 2002. Jennymay also led all the Trinity orchestras during her time there and was awarded several prizes, including the Edgar T.P. Conley Prize for Excellence. Almost immediately after graduation she was invited to join the internationally renowned physical theatre string group The Gogmagogs, and performed in their 2003 world tour and 2004 UK tour. Jennymay plays alongside Emma in the Jazz-based ensemble Basquiat Strings. They are both currently members of the F-ire Collective, a group of artists from across the world dedicated to the exploration of rhythm and rhythmic education, which won the 2004 BBC Jazz Award for innovation. Jenny also lends her talents as an improviser to seven piece avant-folk outfit The Memory Band and frequently performs with folk singer Nancy Wallace.

Vincent Sipprellbegan his musical education at the Centre for Young Musicians where he met and first began playing chamber music with Emma. At this time he was studying both violin and cello but eventually he settled on something in between and began studying viola with Richard Crabtree at Trinity College of Music in 1998. While at College he led the viola sections of all the College orchestras and was awarded the Band-Kurtz viola prize. When Vincent isn't playing his viola he is usually recording and performing across the UK with his band Screamer on the Hill, in which he sings and plays a vast array of instruments (but not the viola) and sometimes wears a cowboy hat.