Arne Richards (Artistic Director - harpsichord/accordion)
made his highly acclaimed debut at the Wigmore Hall, and has since developed a colourful and varied performing profile in many parts of the world. Well known for his exciting and stylish playing, he has recorded regularly for BBC Radio and Television, Channel 4 Television, and has appeared on Italian, German, Mexican, Australian and US networks. An authority on music for healing, his work as a consultant music therapist has taken him to Scandinavia, the Far East and Australia. ARne's unique compositions and arrangements for the Oxford Concert Party reflect his great love of world music, particularly celtic music and the Tango.

Isabel Knowland (violin)
studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Frederick Grinke. During her varied professional career she has played in West End shows, recorded with groups such as Procul Harem, played in many major London orchestras and recorded several trio recitals for the BBC. Since Oxford Concert Party's formation in 1992 she has managed the group, and has played a major role in developing projects in prisons, schools and residential homes. Brought up in Ireland, her playing reflects her love of its passionate music and energetic dance.

Gregory Warren Wilson (violin)
is a jack of all trades, known nowadays as a post-modernist renaissance man. He trained at the Royal Ballet School and danced at Covent Garden before studying at the Royal College of Music. He was a member of the Razumovsky Quartet for three years and the London Mozart Players for ten. He now enjoys a wide variety of work, performing and recording classical, contemporary and pop music. Passionate about tango, he teaches at The Tango Club in London. He has also published four books of poetry.

Lisanne Melchior (viola)
won violin and viola scholarships to the Royal Northern College of Music and later to study in Chicago. Lisanne enjoys different forms of music playing in symphony orchestras, opera orchestras including Glyndebourne and Welsh National, and jazz ensembles. She has a particular love of chamber music and has performed concertos in both England and Germany. Lisanne lives on a smallholding with animals both feathered & woolly and also keeps free-range children.

Trevor Burley (cello)
hails from Halesowen in the west midlands. At the age of age of eleven, having failed miserably with the trumpet, he fell in love with the cello and later studied at the Welsh College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music. Since then his busy freelance career has included playing in thirteen West End shows, performing chamber music at the Purcell Room and working with the rock group Suede. He now lives in Oxfordshire with his partner Shelley, with whom he plays 1920's Palm Court music. He also cooks with gusto, flirts with church organs and is a practising Craniosacral Therapist.

Lucy Hare (double bass)
is in great demand as a freelance player in London and abroad. She has worked with many of London's major orchestras, chamber ensembles and recording companies. A traveler, gastronome and dancer at heart, Lucy's unique percussive playing brings together her wild energy and love of world rhythms and music. Obsessed by the tango she has formed her own tango quintet, Tango Volcano. She has recently acquired a new passion, gardening, and she and Isabel are known to spend many hours over their veg boxes, wine glass in hand, discussing slugs and compost.