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Willard Carter began cello lessons at the age of four with Elizabeth Anderson. He joined Wells Cathedral School as a chorister at the age of eight and moved to the Purcell School in 2013 to study cello with Alexander Boyarsky. In 2016, he joined the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music for additional chamber music studies. In 2018, he began studying with Ivan Monighetti at the Escuela de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid, in 2023, he was a student at the Barenboim–Said Akademie with Frans Helmerson and from 2026 he is studying with Antje Weithaas in Berlin. 

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Willard has played recitals at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Radio Classique Festival in Saint-Malo, Solsberg Festival and has performed on stages such as The Wigmore Hall, Buckingham Palace and Berlin Konzerthaus. Willard has performed and curated concerts at the Heidelberger Frühling Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and the Gstaad New Year Festival.

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In November 2025 Willard won the VP Opus Bank Award in Liechtenstein.

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Described as having “the potential to become a major voice in the classical music world” (Peter Donohoe CBE), Madeleine Brown is establishing herself as one of the most exciting young pianists of this generation. Having graduated with a BA in Music from Trinity College, Cambridge, she is now studying with Kathryn Stott at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she recently won the college’s prestigious Gold Medal Competition. She was recently awarded the RNCM Silver Medal by the Worshipful Company of Musicians, adding her to the Company’s acclaimed Young Artist Programme. Madeleine has previously learnt with esteemed pedagogues, including Helen Krizos, Charles Owen, Dina Parakhina and Lora Dimitrova, and is very grateful to receive coaching from Stephen Kovacevich, Zlata Chochieva, Muza Rubackyte and Marios Papadopoulos. Madeleine is grateful to the Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation and the Drake Calleja Trust for their generous support.

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In 2026, Madeleine made her debut at the Wigmore Hall, Royal Concert Hall Nottingham, and Leeds Lunchtime concert series. She has performed to international acclaim, receiving first prize at the Bromsgrove International Musician’s Competition in May 2025. She also received an Honourable Mention diploma at the International Piano Competition “Ciudad de Vigo” 2025 and was a keyboard semi-finalist in the Royal Overseas League Annual Music competition. Madeleine has already gained great experience working with orchestras and was awarded 1st prize in both the RNCM Concerto Competition in 2026 performing Rachmaninoff’s 3rd, and the Cambridge University Concerto Competition in 2023, performing Grieg.

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Madeleine has performed in esteemed venues including London’s Steinway Hall, King’s Place, St. James’ Sussex Gardens, Stoller Hall, Lansdowne Club, Mayfair, Southwark Cathedral, West Road Concert Hall, Kettle’s Yard, and the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, as well as the Bonn Schumannhaus and Köln Bechstein Centre. Praised for her extensive repertoire list and memorisation ability, Madeleine performed the complete Goldberg Variations by heart as part of the Trinity College Music Society’s ‘Clavier-Übung’ concert series in 2021.

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Madeleine has participated in several piano academies, including the Oxford Piano Festival in 2023, where she learnt from Stephen Kovacevich, Richard Goode and Marios Papadopoulos, and Bacewicz International Summer Music Academy in 2025, studying with Claudio Martinez-Mehner and Ilya Maximov. She has twice been invited to participate in Heribert Koch’s week-long Internationaler Meisterkurs für Pianisten in Düren. Madeleine has received further masterclass tuition from several highly acclaimed pianists including Sir Stephen Hough, Peter Donohoe, Roberto Plano, Uta Weyand, Philipe Cassard, Freddy Kempf, Leon McCawley, and Melvyn Tan.

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As well as solo work, Madeleine enjoys collaborative playing and regularly accompanies instrumentalists and vocalists. She is a member of the RNCM-based Chiarina Trio, with whom she will compete at the Cavatina Chamber Music Competition finals in May 2026. She works as a duo with conductor and violinist, Joseph Wolfe, with whom she has performed at Southwark Cathedral, Hammerwood Park, St. John the Divine, Kennington, and Cranbrook Parish Church. With an affinity for art song, Madeleine was an accompanist on the Cambridge Pembroke Lieder Scheme for three consecutive years, receiving regular coaching from Joseph Middleton. Her role as an accompanist involved masterclass tuition from Sir Thomas Allen, James Gilchrist, Nicky Spence, Ailish Tynan, Marc Le Brocq and Lucy Crowe. She went on to win first prize and the accompanist award in the Cambridge Clare College Song Competition in 2023.​​​

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