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Joanna Levine studied cello and viola da gamba at the Guildhall School of Music, learning with Raphael Wallfisch, Anthony Pleeth and Sarah Cunningham.

She is a founder member of Concordia, with whom she has made recordings for Hyperion, Chandos, Metronome, Signum and Real World Records, as well as for BBC, and was thrilled to join Fretwork in 2017.

Since joining she has had many experiences doing concerts, recording CDs and film soundtracks, touring around Europe collaborating with fantastic groups such as the Kings Singers, the Sixteen and Sansara, and working alongside wonderful singers including Iestyn Davies and Helen Charleston.

​Joanna has played in many productions at the Globe Theatre, including ‘Farinelli and the King’, which transferred to the West End, and ‘All the Angels’, a play about Handel’s Messiah. Joanna has also collaborated with the photographer Mandy Jandrell, composing and performing music for her installation The Blue Hour. She also enjoys playing the viol solos in the John and Matthew Passions,

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Arnheir Hauksson says:

‘I started making music in my early teens with a punk rock band. I soon wanted to play jazz but in Reykjavik, where I’m from, you had to learn the classical guitar before being allowed to enrol on the jazz course. So that’s what I did, and I haven’t looked back. I also started singing in a college choir and this, alongside my discovery of classical music, led me to the fascinating world of early music.

After moving to London and having finished my post-graduate training in guitar and lute, I was invited to join a medieval group. With medieval music’s open tunings, improvisations and plectrum playing, my life came full circle. Strange world!
Since then I have been lucky to play medieval, renaissance, baroque and newly written music with many leading UK period instrument ensembles and orchestras, and I have worked in theatres all over the world.’