About us

Angela Stone

Flute

Michelle Verheggen

Harp

Tine Janssens

Viola

Angela Stone was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and after graduating from the London College of Music she completed her studies with a soloist diploma under Peter Lukas Graf in Basel, Switzerland. While in Basel she began her professional orchestral career as principal flute with the Basel Sinfonietta, later working with the Münchener Symphoniker and the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen before settling in the Netherlands as assistant principal with the Philharmonie Zuidnederland. Angela is an active and keen chamber musician, working with the Burkhard Duo, the Anemos Arts Ensemble and the Orfeo Trio.

Michelle studied classical harp at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague from 2010-2018 with Ernestine Stoop and Marieke Schoenmakers. She also studied with Catrin Finch from 2012 after winning a prize at her summer course in Wales. In 2012 she was also awarded second prize at the international harp competition of Assia Cunego.

Michelle has a broad palet of professional orchestras and ensembles with whom she works in the Netherlands, her chamber music work including Trio Orfeo, the Doppler Duo, and Ongestreken. She also regularly plays with all the major Dutch symphony orchestras.

Tine Janssens began studying the viola with Marc Tooten in Leuven, Belgium, after which she continued her studies at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Prof. Peter Langgartner as well as at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Prof. Jürgen Kussmaul, where she graduated in 2002. Whilst still a student Tine worked as principal viola with the Flemish Symphony Orchestra and the World Youth Orchestra. From 2002 to 2014 she was assistant principal viola with the Philharmonie Zuidnederland and in 2015 she became principal viola with the Royal Opera of Wallonie, Belgium. As a chamber musician Tine performs regularly with the string quartet Prosperus 4 and the Orfeo Trio as well as the Flemish Sinfonietta, an ensemble specializing in contemporary music. Tine also teaches the viola at the Luca School of Arts in Leuven, Belgium.