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Martina is a versatile flute player and enthusiastic teacher from the Czech Republic. She trained in Classical Flute and Jazz Flute Performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has freelanced with orchestras, touring the UK with Czech National Symphony Orchestra, or Scandinavia with City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, and playing flute and piccolo in theatre pits in ballet and opera productions. Exploring her interest in groove and improvising, she is currently specialising in Brazilian music, performing with Rhythms of the City samba band as a percussionist and with Offbeat Collective as a flautist.

She has taught students of different levels and ages, helping them achieve their musical goals and discover their creative potential. She has lead creative music workshops for The Music FunDation in Prague and taught a seminar on Creativity in Music at the Teplice Conservatoire.

Award winning saxophonist and recorder player Tom Ridout was predicted by Jazzwise Magazine in 2012 as an upcoming jazz musician to watch out for. A finalist in the 2016 BBC Young Musician Jazz Award, graduate from the prestigious Royal Academy of Music, winner of the Lancaster Jazz Festival Youth Jazz Commission 2018, Help Musicians Peter Whittingham Jazz Awardee 2021, and a recent member of NYJO, Tom is a prolific composer who fronts his own bands playing his original compositions.

British-Polish recorder player Olivia Petryszak is a graduate of bachelors from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she received a 1st Class Honours Bachelors degree in 2022 with added Concert Recital Diploma award for outstanding performance. She also spent 2 years studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and subsequently completed a masters degree at the Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie in Poland. Through her study she has been lucky to study under some of the best recorder players in the world, principally Erik Bosgraaf. She has been lucky to learn, through lessons and masterclasses, with other renowned players such as Maurice Steger, Daniel Brüggen, Karel van Steenhoven and Dorothee Oberlinger, among others.
Through a heavily creative musical upbringing, creativity and flexibility remains present and highly important in Olivia’s playing, and her musical spontaneity has helped to create a highly distinctive and unique style. Olivia is active not only as a performer of early music, but also works frequently across genres as an improviser, composer, arranger and collaborator, priding herself on a unique ability to mold the sound of the recorder to the situation, and thus proving its place among other contemporary instruments in the new music scene today.
Olivia is acquiring an ever-growing list of prolific venues where she has played across Europe, including Snape Maltings Concert Hall, the Barbican Centre, Splendor Amsterdam, Abbey Road Studios and Shakespeare’s Globe. Her love for opera has so far landed her spots in performances of Venus and Adonis (Blow), La descente d’Orphée aux enfers (Charpentier) and Judicium Salomonis (Carissimi) in Milton Court Theatre, an Olivier award-winning production of Noye’s Fludde (Britten) with the English National Opera, and, most recently, performances of Rinaldo (Händel) with the Polska Opera Królewska in Warsaw and subsequently Zagreb.
Aside from her performance successes, Olivia is highly proactive in improving the reputation of the recorder worldwide. Following a particularly successful dissertation entitled Make the Recorder Great Again!, Olivia has published several articles in recorder magazines across Europe, and is working hard to maintain efforts to prove the quality and beauty of the instrument. Part of this efforts has been to contribute to the new music being written for the instrument - both through her own compositions, and those she has commissioned for the instrument; the most recent being When Sanity Visits (Adam Possener, 2019), Home Improvements (James Allen, 2021), Floodlines (Jay Richardson, 2022) and Assembling Strata (Cameron Scott, 2023).

Reuben Fowler is a 27 year old jazz trumpet player, composer, arranger and teacher based in London. He is currently the trumpet player for Paloma Faith and Culture Club, and has also performed with an array of artists including Noel Gallagher and Texas. As a result he has performed at some of the most coveted venues and festivals worldwide including the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, The Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles), the New Orleans Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Glastonbury and the North Sea Jazz Festival. Reuben has also worked extensively as a session musician and his performing credits include the BBC Big Band. Worldwide, he has played on broadcasts including: Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny, The Jimmy Kimmel Show, The Jonathan Ross Show, Alan Carr Chatty Man, Taratata, and Live at the Palladium.

Reuben Fowler graduated in 2012 from the Royal Academy of Music, winning the Kenny Wheeler Award for composition and performance and the Musicians Benevolent Peter Whittingham Award. He also won the John Baker Memorial Award for brass.

Following the online success of the Facebook page Trumpet Tuesday; which is co- managed by Reuben alongside two other Royal Academy of Music alumni, he was asked to lead a group masterclass for the jazz and classical brass students at his alma- mater in 2016. Prior to this, he had also taught the Jazz Ensemble at the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. 

In 2013 Reuben Fowler wrote and arranged, rehearsed and recorded his own big band as part of a trans-atlantic recording project called Between Shadows, featuring jazz legends Tom Harrell, Stan Sulzmann and Jim Hart. The project later resulted in Fowler being cited: "...maybe the most exciting and accomplished trumpeter to emerge on the British Jazz scene.."

John K Miles is YMM's Musical Director and leads the INNOVATE creative ensembles based on techniques he pioneered with organisations such as the London Philharmonic, National Youth Jazz Orchestra and the Guildhall.

John K Miles is a composer, instrumentalist and educator who passionately believes in the power of music to transform lives and communities, to bring people together, as well as the benefits for personal well-being. He has written numerous scores for film and television (BBC1, BBC2, Channel 4, Channel 5 and independent film production companies) and released two solo CDs ('The Enchanter' and 'Trane Ride'). He has myriad commissions from UK orchestras, most recently Share The Dream for CBSO and an open access choir of Birmingham school children for the Cultural Commonwealth Games celebrations in 2022.

As an instrumentalist, he’s worked with a range of artists including Reggae star Maxi Priest, Soulman Geno Washington and acclaimed jazz musicians Alan Skidmore, Tim Garland and Gerard Prescencer. He was an instrumental and ensemble coach for many years and is a passionate believer in the benefits of personal and community well-being through music making.

John has been a theory consultant at ABRSM, and visiting professor at Guildhall School Music of Drama and Trinity Laban. He’s led education projects for a stellar range of arts organisations including London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, English National Opera, National Youth Jazz Orchestra, and Barbican in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Centre in New York. He’s worked with ages 4-99 with a strong emphasis on collaboration, aiming to create an educational context where participants can find a role in which they can be challenged but also succeed, empowering students to exceed their own expectations.