Dame Evelyn Glennie

Dame Evelyn Glennie is the world’s premier solo percussionist. Her solo recordings exceed 40 CDs. A double GRAMMY award winner and BAFTA nominee, Evelyn composes for film, theatre and television. The Evelyn Glennie Podcast was launched in 2020. Evelyn was awarded an OBE in 1993 and has over 100 international awards to date, including the Polar Music Prize, the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and the Companion of Honour. Evelyn is Curator for The Evelyn Glennie Collection. Her iconic film Touch the Sound, TED Talk and charity The Evelyn Glennie Foundation embody her life-long mission to Teach the World to Listen.

Photo credit: © Philip Rathmer (and Brigitte).

Dave Fleet

Dave Fleet is a field recordist, electronic musician and photographer in so much as that he can point a camera at something that catches his eye in the same way as he point’s a microphone at something that catches his ear.

Mark Wingfield

Mark is a multi-award winning musician and audio engineer.  He has played concerts across the globe and his albums have received critical acclaim in over 300 reviews in more than 20 countries.

As a mixing and mastering, engineer Mark has received many accolades from audiophile magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. Mark is the mixing and mastering engineer of choice for the NYC based MoonJune Records (Downbeat readers poll third favourite jazz label in the US) and the audiophile label Greydisc Records.

Mark has also worked with the museum sector, recording and editing audio guides and other multimedia audio for Arts Council London, The Fitzwilliam Museum, The Cambridge Museum of Zoology and Kettle’s Yard.

Chris Clifton

Chris is a vocalist, actor, presenter, and project manager. As well as founding The St Neots Singers, the town’s first secular community choir, he has also broken a number of proverbial legs on stage with a number of theatre groups. He has spent far too much time in front of a camera and does his best to generally avoid them nowadays. He is currently the frontman and lead vocalist for the local band, The Roxton Press, turning his hand (or rather his vocal cords) to a wide and diverse range of music.

Ben Pitt

Ben Pitt cut his creative teeth as a musician and concert promoter in London. Since moving to St Neots in 2012, he’s worked as a video producer, music teacher, community development officer, journalist and town and district councillor. He is the director of St Neots Festival.

Dario Amadori

Dario is a saxophone player who loves to improvise on different music styles. He has been playing sax for over 20 years and joined different bands playing in the UK and Italy. His passion is rockabilly and swing but he also enjoys playing romantic songs at weddings and partying with the crowds, sharing the stage with house/disco music DJs. A versatile player whose goal is to bring positive vibes. The sax players he gets inspiration from are: the great Ray Gelato (the “Godfather of Swing” who is also his mentor), Leroi Moore (Dave Matthews Band), Arnett Cobb, Maceo Parker, Candy Dulfer. He also loves dad jokes.