Sydney recorder player Alana Blackburn completed her Bachelor of Music (performance) degree with First Class Honours in 2004 from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. After being awarded a University of Sydney Postgraduate Award in 2005, she holds a Master of Music (performance) degree specialising in Contemporary Japanese Compositions for Recorder under the instruction of Hans-Dieter Michatz.  
Alana has been awarded scholarships and bursaries for every year of her undergraduate and postgraduate studies including; the Mary Patricia Bell Grant for outstanding achievement, the John Ellyard Memorial Scholarship, the Margaret Henderson Award and Commonwealth Accommodation Scholarships. 
As a performer, she has performed throughout Australia as a soloist and with ensembles; Salut! Baroque, La Folia, The Sydney Consort, The Bell Shakespeare Company, The Tall Poppeas, and appeared as a guest soloist with the Sydney Conservatorium Early Music Ensemble. She has toured North West NSW with various ensembles from the ensemble department of the Conservatorium including Bellatrix: The Australian Recorder Quartet, as well as touring New Zealand and recording a CD with Australia's leading youth recorder ensemble Batalla Famossa. 
Alana has had lessons and master classes with such recorder icons; Walter van Hauwe and Paul Leenhouts (Netherlands), Eva Legene (USA), David Bellugi (Italy), John Tyson (USA), Piers Adams (UK) and Ashley Soloman (UK).
Alana is currently lecturing in teaching techniques at the JMC Academy, Sydney and also appears regularly as a tutor at recorder and orchestral workshops around Australia including the Sydney Recorder Society meetings.

Clara completed her Bachelor of Music at the University of Sydney, majoring in piano performance, having studied with Albert Landa and Neta Maughan. A Graduate Diploma of Education was completed in the following year. Whist teaching piano at Ravenswood, Clara furthered her studies on the modern cello with Algimantas Motiekaitis. In 1981-82, being awarded a Graduate Rotary Fellowship, she studied modern cello with Jerome Jelinek at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. On her return to Australia, as well as working as a freelance cellist, a year was spent with the ABC Training Orchestra. Raising a young family renewed an interest  in teaching and positions at The King's School, Waverley College and Chatswood  Yamaha Centre followed. Clara also conducted and tutored string groups for the Western Youth Orchestra and local primary schools as well as running a busy private studio. In 2004, Clara completed an Honours year at Sydney University, majoring in baroque cello performance, having studied with Tim Blomfield. In the same year she joined the baroque all female vocal ensemble “The Tall Poppeas”. Clara is a founding member of “Suonare”, an instrumental ensemble specialising in exploring and performing the baroque cello sonata repertoire.

Diana is a graduate in Music with Honours from the University of New England, majoring in accompaniment. Originally studying as a pianist with such eminent musicians as Igor Hmelnitsky, Winifred Burston and Tessa Birnie, Diana has spent many years as an accompanist and ensemble player, performing for music societies such as the Australian Society of Keyboard Music and the Classical Guitar Society. With experience as a free-lance accompanist for instrumentalists and singers of all descriptions, Diana has also accompanied choirs in the school setting, and tutored in accompaniment. More recently, she has undertaken studies in harpsichord and continuo accompaniment with harpsichordist Monika Kornel, and is currently completing a Masters (Hons) thesis on styles in harpsichord continuo accompaniment. 

Special events for 2007 included a performance of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at Monte Chapel with Narelle Hissey and Belinda Montgomery (later performed in a program with the St Mary’s Singers at the St Mary’s Cathedral Crypt), as well as a concert of mixed vocal and cello works with vibrant vocal ensemble The Tall Poppeas at the St. Ursuline Chapel in Armidale.  

2008 engagements include presenting ‘Girl’s’ Music’, a concert featuring music written for young women at Monte Chapel with singer Belinda Montgomery, cellist Rita Woolhouse and up-and-coming baroque violinist Lathika  Viphanage;

performing with The Tall Poppeas for the New England Bach Festival in Armidale (May); a concert with a Spanish dance flavour involving the Early Dance Consort and guitarist Steve Thorneycroft (September); and in November, joining forces with Monika Kornel for the annual Glebe Music Festival performing works for two harpsichords including a Bach double concerto.