Emma Ferrand won the National Federation of Music Societies Award in 1974, since when she has travelled widely and broadcast frequently on BBC Radio 3. She studied at the International Cello Centre, the Royal Academy, and in Switzerland, where she studied with Pierre Fournier. She has made frequent appearances at the Wigmore Hall and the South Bank. She is a senior tutor in cello at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she taught Gabby Waite and Katharine Wood, our recent "Munster" recitalist. In 1994, she was guest cello professor to the Eastman School of Music in New York, and in 1996 was a member of the jury for the International String Competition.

Margaret Fingerhut is well-known at the BRMC. She is a professor at the Royal Northern College, and has appeared as soloist with all the major British orchestras. She is equally in demand as a soloist as an accompanist. Her last visit to Club was in October 2000, but we first met her many years before, when she accompanied violinist Bradley Creswick.