Richard Egarr began as Music Director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale in August 2020. And ended 15 years at the helm of the Academy of Ancient Music in summer 2021. He remains the resident guest conductor of the Residentie Orkest in The Hague and artistic partner of the St Paul Chamber, and was Associate Artist with the Scottish Chamber 2011-2017. He has conducted many leading symphony orchestras, notably the London Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouworkest and Philadelphia. In addition to being an accomplished conductor, he is a brilliant harpsichordist, and equally adept on the organ and fortepiano. He regularly gives recitals on major stages such as Wigmore and Carnegie Hall and has recorded many solo CDs for Harmonia Mundi, notably of J.S. Bach, Couperin, Purcell and Mozart, followed by Byrd and Sweelinck on Linn. He trained as a chorister at York Minster, was an organ scholar at Clare College Cambridge and later studied with Gustav and Marie Leonhardt. He teaches at the Amsterdam Conservatory and is Visiting Artist at the Juilliard School in New York.

Russian-born pianist and harpsichordist Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya is in great demand both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. Alexandra graduated from the Department of Historical and Modern Art Performance at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory from the class of Professor Olga Martynova in 2009, where she studied piano, harpsichord and fortepiano. Alexandra continued her studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, gaining a Master’s Degree under the tutelage of Richard Egarr and Menno van Delft. In July 2015 Alexandra graduated with the Zertifikatstudium Meisterklasse Degree at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich under Prof. Christine Schornsheim. Alexandra has won top prizes at competitions including the Prague Spring International Competition in 2012, and the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition Leipzig in 2014.

Her love for chamber music and solo performing has brought her to perform in premier venues and festivals all over Europe, Russia and Asia.  She works regularly with the Residentie Orkest in Den Haag, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, and the Academy of Ancient music. She also works at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag as a keyboard repetiteur. Future engagements will take her throughout Europe, and to the USA with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra performing the J.S. Bach double concertos, and Mendelssohn double concertos.

Alexandra’s debut recording on fortepiano was released in 2009, featuring Mozart sonatas for piano and violin with violinist Sergei Filchenko. She and her husband Richard Egarr formed Duo Pleyel in 2017 to explore the 4-hand and 2-piano repertoire that is often unjustly ignored. Their repertoire includes J.C. Bach, Dussek, Czerny, Hummel and Liszt, alongside Mozart, Schubert and later composers. Forthcoming concerts take them to Innsbruck, Madrid, Ghent and York. Their first CD for LINN Records of works by Schubert was released in April 2020 and received excellent reviews. This was followed in 2021 by the complete 4-hand music by Jan Ladislav Dussek which also met with critical acclaim. November 2022 saw the release of a recording coupling the early 4-hand sonatas of Mozart with sonatas by his ‘musical father’ Johann Christian Bach.

Alexandra has also recorded CDs of music by F. Geminiani (released in 2022) and L. Boccherini with Russian violinist Igor Ruhadze for Brilliant Classics label. Future solo recording plans include the complete works of Gottlieb Muffat and John Christopher Smith.