Below is information about the artists appearing at this season's concerts:

Howard Shelley, Patron of Thames Concerts, has been both Associate and Principal Guest Conductor with the London Mozart Players and has toured with them in both Europe and the Far East. Their many recordings together have received exceptional critical acclaim. Howard has also worked with and conducted many other orchestras from all parts of the world. He has made many recordings for Chandos, Hyperion and EMI, including award-winning sets of a number of composers.

The Nash Ensemble have built up a remarkable reputation as one of Britain's finest and most adventurous chamber groups with a vast repertoire of imaginative, innovative and unusual programmes. They perform works from Mozart to the Avant Garde with equal sensitivity and musicality. The Nash make many foreign tours and are regular visitors to many music festivals. They have an impressive collection of recordings, from classical masterpieces, little-known gems, to important contemporary works, illustrating their virtuosity.

Clarinettist Michael Collins is one of today's most sought after soloists. At 16 he won the woodwind prize in the first BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition; since then he has performed as a soloist with many of the world's major orchestras, including an appearance at the last night of the Proms. He has made many recordings and has done much to promote the clarinet concerto repertoire of today's composers.

David Juritz has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in all the major concert halls of the UK as well as performing in North and South America, the Far East, Europe, South Africa and Australia. He was appointed leader of the London Mozart Players in 1991, the UK's longest established chamber orchestra. With the LMP he has given many world premieres including new works by a number of different composers. His recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons with the LMP was acclaimed as 'one of the finest interpretations on modern instruments'. He has just 'busked' his way around the world raising funds for 'Musequality', which will finance start-up music projects in poor areas.

The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, is one of the finest collegiate choirs in the world. It consists of sixteen choristers and four probationers, who are educated at St John's College School, and sixteen undergraduate choral scholars at the College. The consistency and particular quality of the Choir has led to many invitations to perform throughout the world. The Choir has an extensive discography dating back to the 1950s and in recent years has become well known for the sequence of recordings in English 20th-century choral music made by Naxos. The Choir now records with Hyperion Records releasing four discs to date.