Mark Caudle is primarily a performer but uses his time between concerts to make baroque instruments. Coronavirus has allowed him to make 2 bass violins and a violin. He likes to experiment to discover what rarer historical instruments might have sounded like.
cmarkcaudle@yahoo.com

Tricia Holman is SVF’s Chief Provisioner, providing meals and accommodation for our performers. She is also expert at spinning, dyeing and knitting wool. This jumper in natural brown and grey with madder-dyed red, is knitted in one piece.
www.triciaknitting.me.uk

Carrie Rimes is a catering assistant for SVF, but otherwise a cheese-maker in North Wales.  Cosyn makes cheese and yogurt from organic Lleyn ewe’s milk.  Sheep’s cheese to the Wool Churches!
www.cosyn.cymru

Noël Riley is a former specialist lecturer on furniture history and writer on art and antiques. The Accomplished Lady, a history of genteel pursuits 1660-1860, is her most recent book.
nacriley@gmail.com

Peter Owen is a keyboard instrument maker who has exhibited at SVF from its start. He respects the historic nature of the instrument, but the case decoration departs from convention.

Stephen Cheek plays viola in the Essex Baroque Orchestra but is also a keen amateur potter, usually working with stoneware and sometimes earthenware, making useful items for general domestic use. The picture is of colourful Raku fired pots!
www.StephenThePotter.ArtSociety.net

Ilana Cravitz plays baroque violin and viola da gamba for SVF and specialises in klezmer fiddle playing, performing and teaching internationally; in 2020 she curated an online klezmer festival, the London International Klezmer Experience (LIKE).
ilanacravitz.com

Maggie Bruce has been playing bassoon and recorder with SVF for around 20 years and has enjoyed every minute of it. In her spare time she enjoys wildlife-watching and loves waiting quietly to get that perfect camera shot.

Martin Bowers makes Renaissance and Baroque string instruments and does repairs and restorations.  His bench shows an 1834 guitar by Louis Panormo and a mid-19th century violin, both for restoration and two newly-made lutes.
mjbowers@btinternet.com

Liz Curry is a long-standing member of Psalmody. As Liz Trenow she writes best-selling historical fiction that sells all over the world and is translated into eleven languages. Her latest is Under A Wartime Sky.
www.liztrenow.com

Sylvie and James Fawcett are violin makers and have been making and repairing instruments in their Thornham Magna workshop since 1983. Pictured is a violin modelled on a Pietro Guarneri of Venice from 1740.
www.fawcettviolins.co.uk

Judy Tarling leads Essex Baroque Orchestra and has taught for many years for Cambridge Early Music and Benslow Music Trust. Much to her surprise, her books have become required reading for players interested in historical performance around the world.
www.judytarling.com 

Norman Myall has been making viols for 40 years. He takes commissions for new instruments and does running repairs and set ups. The picture is of a bass violin after Bartolomeo Christofori 1705.
www.normanmyall.co.uk