Sarah Newbold studied the flute with Atarah Ben-Tovim and Alan Lockwood at Huddersfield Polytechnic and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Peter Lloyd. She then spent a year at the National Centre for Orchestral Studies.

Sarah is a member of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the New London Orchestra and formely of both Welsh National Opera and the London Philharmonic. As a freelance player she works with most of the orchestras in Britain and regularly with the Philharmonia Orchestra. Sarah is able to work in a great variety of musical styles and situations including opera, symphony and chamber orchestra, film sessions, contemporary music, period instrument, solo and chamber ensembles.

Since 1989 Sarah has been a Professor of Flute at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is sought after as an adjudicator and examiner and has given masterclasses and recitals in Greece, Finland and Norway. For the past four years, she has also been the flute coach for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. In September 2010, in addition to her teaching at the Guildhall, she will join the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama as a flute tutor.

As an accompanist, Zoe Smith has worked extensively in the UK and internationally with both singers and instrumentalists. She is a graduate of Oxford University, the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. She has received prizes in song accompaniment and has also specialised in flute repertoire, working in masterclasses and recitals with many leading flautists including Alexa Still and Alain Marion, and recording three CDs for flute and piano.

Since 1999 she has worked at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she is now Head of Ensemble Performance, coaching chamber music and performing with many of the distinguished visiting artists.