Charlotte Church is a Welsh singer-songwriter known for her extraordinary vocal range and fearless musical evolution. Rising to international prominence as a classical soprano, she has since forged a bold, genre-defying practice that blends folk, pop and experimental sounds, guided by storytelling, emotional honesty and creative independence.

Merlin is a fungal ecologist and author of Entangled Life, a million-copy New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize. Merlin is a research associate of the University of Oxford and the VU Amsterdam, the UK Policy Lead for the Fungi Foundation, a core member of the More-Than-Human Life Project, and Director of Impact for the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN).

Jean-François Carrière is currently pursuing studies in Baroque Cello at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. At the age of 14, Jean-François was accepted to the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey, where he studied for five years under Prof. Bartholomew LaFollette.

Nessi Gomes is a British-Portuguese songwriter born on the island of Guernsey. Her music doesn’t try to lift you above life. It walks you straight into it. She writes with a quiet intensity, where beauty sits beside fear, where longing doesn’t ask to be solved, and where the darker corners are given air, not shame.

Lise Vandersmissen is a Belgian harpist who travels with her modern pedal harp and her Italian Triple Harp to perform across Europe and Asia. Lise was one of the Upcoming Artists at Klara Radio, the main classical radio in Belgium, and won the Supernova Chamber Music Competition with her Aglica Trio in 2024.

Jally Kebba Susso is a musical and cultural ambassador for Gambia in the UK. Jally Kebba plays from a background of 74 generations of musical heritage. In November 2022, he was awarded the title of Musical and Cultural Ambassador for Gambia in the UK & Europe from the High Commissioner of the Gambia in the UK.

Hugh Sheehan is a musician, composer, sound designer, and audio producer from Birmingham. Having spent 10 years in Helsinki, Hugh is ow based in London. He produces work for concert hall, theatre, moving image, radio, and podcast. The foundations of his practice lie in Irish traditional music and contemporary classical music, whilst much of his work explores questions of gender and sexuality, desire and shame, assimilation and radicalism.

Soweto Kinch is an award-winning alto saxophonist, MC and composer whose work moves fluidly between jazz, hip hop and spoken word. One of the UK’s most distinctive musical voices, he brings together virtuosic improvisation with sharp lyricism and a deep engagement with history, politics and place.

Kadialy Kouyate’s mesmerising kora skills are deeply rooted in his ancestral lineage of Kouyate griots. Born in southern Senegal, within the rich cultural tapestry of the Mandinka people, he naturally absorbed the traditional griot repertoire from an early age. Embracing this art of Senegalese storytelling, he soon forged his own path as a musician, singer and songwriter.

Iñigo Mikeleiz-Berrade, hailing from Barañáin, Spain, is an acclaimed accordionist whose performances have graced prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall and Wigmore Hall. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, he has collaborated with the London Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra, premiering multiple concertos for accordion.

Mira Awad is a multidisciplinary international artist and activist (artivist), dedicated to the message of peace, empathy and solidarity. Born in Rameh village in the Galilee, to a Palestinian father and Bulgarian mother, Mira was raised in a multicultural, socially involved environment. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Haifa, and Music at the Rimon School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. She currently lives in London.