Marques d’Arede began his career in theatre in 1973 with a production by Fernanda Lapa. He attended the Conservatory and the Actors Training Course at the Comuna-Teatro de Pesquisa. He has a vast body of work in theatre, cinema and television, having worked, among many others, with Rogério de Carvalho, António Feio, Vladislav Pazi, Diogo Infante, Luís Miguel Cintra, Joaquim Benite, Ricardo Neves-Neves, Manoel de Oliveira, Fonseca e Costa, João Mário Grilo and Fernando Vendrell. (Photo Joanna Correia)

Stephen Rockey (MA(Merit),BA(Hons), ALCM, LLCM(TD) - CONDUCTOR – COMPOSER – ARRANGER)
Stephen Rockey was born in Stoke on Trent in April 1960. He started to play the trombone at the age of 13 with a local brass band, and in 1976, he became a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYO) until 1978. 
In 1980 and for eighteen years he was the Principal trombone player and soloist for the Royal Air Force in various bands and travelled all over the world. He has arrangements and compositions recorded on EMI, Bandleader and BBC labels, broadcasts on BBC Radio and TV, and has in his time arranged and composed for all kinds of ensembles, Brass, Military, Orchestral, Choral and Jazz. 
In 1996, he started to study conducting via the RAF and in 1998, he was the second person to be given the roll of Staff Arranger for the Royal Air Force, as well as being the Chief Librarian at the same time. 
He completed his BA in music in 2008 at the University of Bristol gaining a first class honours, specializing in performance and composition, he won the Britten Award for his performance of Berio's 'Sequenza V' and Francaix's 'Trombone concerto,' for trombone and ten winds. 
He has a Masters degree in Composition, and is a PhD candidate in musical composition. He worked for the Royal Guard of Oman from 2013 to 2021. He moved to Portugal shortly after and became a resident in 2022 living near Penela, Coimbra. In 2023 he took the position of Maestro of the Band of the Sociedade Filarmónica Penelense.