Born in Munich, Tassilo Erhardt studied Baroque violin in The Hague, theology in Oxford and musicology in Utrecht, where he also received his Ph.D. After teaching for eight years at University College Roosevelt and the Royal Conservatoire in The Netherlands, he took up a professorship in musicology in Liverpool. Since 2019 he has been teaching Baroque violin and viola at the State University of Music in Würzburg. He has been performing with leading period ensembles and has produced a series of award-winning recordings with the Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen. In his attempt of becoming a 'Renaissance polymath' he also restores and sells old master paintings.

For 50 years Mark Caudle has performed and taught in Britain and Poland. He is principal bass string player in The Parley of Instruments, St James’s Baroque and Canzona, and plays with London Viols, the London Handel Orchestra and Gonzaga Band. He has taught at the Academy of Music in Katowice and the Royal College of Music, London (in the 1980’s) and at the Academies in Wrocław and Łódź. Recent performing and editing projects include the viol in the Far East, new viola da gamba repertoire by J.S. Bach and the viol music of Gottfried Finger. He gave the first modern performances in London and Poland of newly discovered Sonatas by Abel from the Maltzan collection, and has performed the twelve Fantasias for solo viola da gamba by Telemann in concerts in England and Poland. In 2013 he was presented with an Order for services to Polish culture by the Ministry of Culture, and he is a dual citizen of Poland and the UK. He also makes instruments, and his copies of early violins and bass violins are played in performance by some leading Polish and British musicians.

Louise Jameson took up the cello at the age of seven and has played in orchestras and ensembles ever since. A lover of early music, she is often heard playing the Baroque cello and bass violin in Baroque orchestras and the John Jenkins Consort, and the treble and tenor viol in London Viols. Louise also works as administrator of the Suffolk Villages Festival, and as a freelance concert and tour manager for ensembles such as Polyphony, the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge and St James’ Baroque.