From a young age, Jared was a keen participant in many different festivals and events, studying and performing chamber music on both violin and viola under Gabriel Bolkowski at PhoenixPhest Chamber Music Festival in 2013, and successfully auditioning into several district orchestras in Northern Virginia, USA. Throughout high school, Jared continued to seek out opportunities and learning experiences, having participated in orchestras all throughout his studies, eventually becoming concertmaster of the School Orchestra and the Alastair Mackerras Chamber Orchestra at Sydney Grammar School from 2018-2019. Jared also successfully auditioned to be concertmaster of the Australian Combined Schools Music Festival Orchestra, and the Young Mannheim Symphonists Winter Academy, the latter of which kickstarted his interest in historically informed performance. In Year 12, he received Encore Nominations for both Composition and Performance, and ranked 3rd in NSW for HSC Music Extension.

After graduating in 2019, Jared entered the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra as a tutti player and has since performed with them as principal second violin and concertmaster. At the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Jared was awarded the Jean Giles and Thomas Louis Pidcock Violin Scholarship and has participated in a number of orchestral programs ranging from string and symphonic orchestras to the Early Music Ensemble with Erin Helyard and Neal Perez da Costa, which he led in 2021. Throughout university, his orchestral career has continued to grow, performing as an Emerging Artist with both the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra and the Australian Haydn Ensemble, as a tutti player on national tours with ARCO and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and leading the 2nd Violins in the Landa Chamber Orchestra at AYO National Music Camp in 2023. Aside from pursuing early music, he also enjoys exploring modern repertoire, workshopping and performing new solo and chamber works composed by his peers, and in 2022, leading the New Music Ensemble at the Sydney Conservatorium.

Originally from Brisbane, Isabelle Watson is a violinist and artistic researcher creating music in both modern and historically-informed performance styles (and everything in between!). She obtained a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours and the Donald Tugby Musicology Prize at the University of Queensland in 2023, learning violin from Adam Chalabi and Natsuko Yoshimoto. Her first Young Mannheim Symphonists Program - the 2020 National Online Winter Academy - stimulated a passion for HIP and artistic research. Since then, she has participated in many YMS programs, including the National Academies where she was concertmaster from 2022 - 2024. In 2022, she toured an all-Mozart program with the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra as an Emerging Artist, and in April this year, she played in the Mendelssohn/Bach Saint Matthew Passion as an ARCO Fellow. 

Issie has gained a breadth of orchestral experience in recent years. In 2023, she was Principal Second Violin in Queensland Youth Symphony for their successful international tour, performing on world-renowned stages including the Musikverein (Vienna), Laeiszhalle (Hamberg) and Esplanade Concert Hall (Singapore). She has twice played in the Australian Youth Orchestra National Music Camps and in 2024 was an Elder Conservatorium Trainee with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Solo and chamber music is also very important to her, and during her undergraduate studies, Issie was the recipient of the Pollett String Prize and 4MBS Musica Viva Chamber Music Prize.

Issie is currently studying a Master of Philosophy at Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, where her practice-led research seeks to assimilate nineteenth-century expressive practices into performances of Robert Schumann's violin works on modern instruments. Rachael Beesley has helped guide her explorations of nineteenth-century performance practice from a practical and research perspective. In 2024, Issie received the Elder Conservatorium Prize for Excellence in Postgraduate Research for a presentation given at the Musicological Society of Australia SA Research Day.