Jonathan Paget is an Associate Professor of music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Edith Cowan University) where he has led the classical guitar program since 2005, producing many successful graduates. He is also the Associate Dean of Music. Winner of multiple prestigious international guitar competitions, Jonathan has performed throughout Australia, the USA, and Asia, and has performed at festivals such as Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, Strings Attached (Margaret River), and the Shell Darwin International Guitar Festival. Notable recent performances include his February 2022 concert for Musica Viva and Perth Festival as soloist with the Darlington Quartet performing works by Carulli, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and celebrated WA-composer Iain Grandage. In November 2023 he took part in an intercultural performance and research project in Nanjing funded by the National Foundation for Australia China Relations. Jonathan's recordings are regularly played on Australian radio and include two solo guitar discs (“Kaleidoscope” and “Midsummer’s Night” for Move Records). Reviews describe his “formidable virtuosity” [Limelight], “subtle, intimate artistry” [The West Australian], “up there with some of the best” [Classical Guitar, UK]. Winner of prestigious academic awards, as well as Fulbright and Hackett scholarships, he completed doctoral studies at the Eastman School of Music (NY). An active guitar researcher, Jonathan is also the current president of the Classical Guitar Society of WA, Inc

Ingrid Riollot is a French classical guitarist residing in Esperance, an inspiring place of natural beauty and contrasts in Western Australia. She embraces a varied international career capturing the hearts of her audience with sensitivity, tone colour, musicality and mesmerizing tremolo. Ingrid has been privileged to perform both as soloist and with orchestras for internationally acclaimed festivals in Spain, France, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, United-Kingdom, New Zealand, China, Thailand, Italy, Morocco, Hong Kong, Tasmania, Albania, Switzerland, Peru, Mauritius, Vietnam, Monaco... She is regularly invited to adjudicate major international competitions for the guitar: Académie Renier III Monaco, Changsha Guitar Festival China, Albania International Competition, Western Australian Chamber and Soloist Music Festival…) Her widely appreciated masterclasses, lectures and demonstrations have made her a regular guest of academies, universities, and summer schools around the world: UQUAM Montreal, WAAPA Perth, HKAPA …) Recipient of many prizes from the “Conservatoire de Musique de Lyon” and the “Ecole Superieure d’Art de Lorraine” in guitar, chamber music, analysis, harmony, composition, pedagogy… she was awarded “Young Talent Prize” by the Philharmonic Society of Lyon. Ingrid received the precious teachings of Jesus Castro-Balbi, Ricardo Gallen, Marco Tamayo, Joaquin Clerch, Gerard Abiton, Alberto Ponce, and David Russel.Ingrid taught for 20 years in Music Conservatories in France, Studio Kodaly in Switzerland, and Iartschool in China before devoting herself fully to her solo career. She has recorded several solo albums: Homage, My Guitar, Leyenda and Travel Notes. Ingrid is a member of the Australian Silver Sands Guitar Quartet and plays on a Smallman guitar.

Australian-born guitarist Ethan Dorrian is quickly building a reputation as a significant musical force, having studied with such luminaries as Leo Brouwer, Marco Tamayo, Marcin Dylla, Judicael Perroy, Javier Riba and Vladimir Gorbach among others, and a variety of world-class conservatoires, including WAAPA, Sydney Conservatorium, CRR de Reims, and El Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Cordoba. Recently returned from Spain, after completing his degree (1st class honors) at the Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Cordoba under the guidance of Javier Riba Ethan is now pursuing a Master of Performing Arts (Music) at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts exploring the Mediterranean sonatas of Angelo Gilardino. Ethan has performed at major international concert such as the Sydney opera house, Verbrugghen hall, Perth Concert Hall, Teatro Gongorra, Auditorio de Victoria Eugenia, La Caja Blanca, Salle Maurice Ravel and the Esplenade Theatre, among others. He has been a finalist in multiple competitions across Australia, Europe, and Asia. Currently Ethan teaches a private studio of 60 students along with teaching in a variety of high schools. “Ethan has an unreal tone and musical sensitivity, his own unique voice sings through the guitar” - Javier Riba

Craig Lake currently balances a demanding teaching schedule as a staff member of Instrumental Music School Services (Department of Education and Training, Western Australia), and lectures in guitar at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Perth) where he has recently commenced the PhD in performing arts. He regularly performs in duo with guitarist Jonathan Paget, and is also an exponent of the theorbo, having performed with some of Australia’s leading baroque musicians such as Sara MacLiver, Fiona Campbell, Stewart Smith, and Paul Wright. “He is a very gifted young guitarist who plays with a strong technique and an unusual degree of musicality and commitment” [Timothy Kain]. “Craig is a very mature and refined musician...great technique and tone” [Slava Grigoryan].