Oliver Baily is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, where he studied with Ben Holland. Whilst at the RNCM he won the Helen Porthouse Paganini Prize and the Emmanuel Prize. In recent years Oliver has given solo performances across the UK, including a recital at the Northern Aldborough Festival, and concerto appearances with the Settle Orchestra, Manchester Beethoven Orchestra and Vacation Chamber Orchestra.  He is a founder member of the Treske Quartet, and as a chamber musician he has performed at numerous UK festivals including the Ryedale Festival, West Cork Music Festival and Buxton International Festival. In September 2024 Oliver was appointed to the position of Sub Principal (No 3) Violin 2 in the Orchestra of Opera North, before which he freelanced with various orchestras and ensembles across the UK. He has previously directed youth orchestra workshops for the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, and in early 2019 he joined the Chamber Orchestra of Europe on tour in Salzburg.

Oliver performs on a Derazey violin made in Paris in the late 19th Century, and is also very grateful to the Harrison Frank Family Foundation for the loan of a beautiful modern violin made by W.E Hill & Sons.

Mollie Wrafter graduated with First Class Honours from the Royal Northern College of Music, studying with Leland Chen. During her time at RNCM she won the Norman George Violin Competition and the Nossek Prize for Chamber Music. She was awarded the Irish Heritage Performance Bursary for her Wigmore Hall debut performance in 2019. Since completing her undergraduate study at RNCM she has enjoyed a busy freelance career, balancing solo engagements and her quartet. In April 2022 Mollie won the Aileen Gore Cup & RTE Lyric FM Award at the Feis Ceoil in Dublin. Subsequently, she was awarded the RDS Jago Award and a professional solo engagement with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra which aired on RTÉ Lyric FM. Mollie features on Manchester Collective’s debut LP ‘The Centre is Everywhere’ and was named one of Golden Plec Magazine’s ‘PlecPicks’ in 2021. This year she has thoroughly enjoyed playing with the Hallé Orchestra through their Advanced Orchestral Strings Programme and was delighted to receive the Charles Hallé Award. Mollie sits on the Board of Directors of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland.

Abigail Hammett was born in South Wales and has recently completed her Masters at the Royal Northern College of Music where she studied with Levon Chilingirian and Benedict Holland. During her time at the RNCM she was the recipient of the Leverhulme Scholarship and won the RNCM Schubert prize and the Hirsch Chamber prize. Since graduating she has received viola tutelage from Veit Hertenstein, Peijun Xu and Nobuko Imai.  Abigail is a dedicated chamber musician and a founding member of the Manchester-based Treske Quartet, who are currently RNCM Quartet Studio Artists and residents at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in the summer of 2022. Abi freelances in Manchester where she is an Artist on Live Music Now and frequently performs with Opera North, the Hallé and other orchestras across the North.  Her viola was made by her father Timothy Hammett in 2013. 

The German born English cellist Robert Wheatley is a versatile musician with an international career performing in the fields of chamber music, contemporary music and improvisation. He is a founding member of the contemporary music ensemble S201, the Emmeline String Quartet, Crimson Sunbird and multidisciplinary impro-group Theater Filidonia (a collective of young artists consisting of musicians, dancers, actors and installation artists). As of November 2022 he is the cellist of the Treske Quartet. His work as a performing artist has led him all over the world, having visited South Korea in 2018 and 2019 appearing at Youngnam Contemporary music festival and the Daegu Contemporary music festival, Klangzeit Festival Berlin, Beethovenfest Bonn in Germany, as well as many other national and international stages. He is passionate about performing all music, with concerts this past year ranging from Haydn string quartets to hardcore noise music and interdisciplinary performances. He began his cello studies in 2014 with Prof. Christoph Richter at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen and subsequently moved back to Manchester to study a Master’s degree in Cello at RNCM in Manchester under Nicholas Trygstad, where he was the recipient of the Barbirolli Cello prize in November 2019. Furthermore, he received guidance in baroque cello from Susan Shepherd and in improvisation from Steve Berry and Iain Dixon.