The Atéa Quintet is the foremost British Wind Quintet of their generation. Internationally acclaimed, they recently became double prize winners at the 2015 Karl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition in Denmark. As the Associate Ensemble in Residence at the Birmingham Conservatoire and Quintet in Residence at the Purcell School, they mentor some of the finest up and coming musicians in the country. Since its formation in 2009, the Atéa Quintet has performed in some of the finest halls in the world. Highlights include a critically acclaimed Friday night recital at the Wigmore Hall, performances at the Cheltenham, Brighton and Lake District Summer Festivals and concerts in St Martin in the Fields, Bridgewater Hall and St Johns Smith Square. Recent seasons have included a tour to Scotland, the Czech Republic and a residency at the Two Moors Festival. Brought together by their communal love of wind chamber music, members of the Atéa Quintet have individually received several prizes in international competitions and played with all of the country's leading orchestras. The Quintet is eternally grateful for the support that they have received from the Tunnell Trust, Kirckman Concert Society, New Dots and Live Music Now. They are looking forward to a tour of Japan in 2017 as well as many other recitals all around the world.

Dina Duisen (piano) comes from a musical family in Kazakhstan, and made her debut aged 14 performing Prokofiev's 1st piano concerto. She studied in Kazakhstan and America before completing her Masters with Distinction at the Royal Academy of Music. She has attended the Sergei Babayan Piano Academy in the USA, the Oxford Philomusica Piano Festival and Summer Academy, and the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove. 

Gamal Khamis is a British pianist, educated at Westminster School, Imperial College London and the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Niel Immelman, Simon Lepper, Ashley Wass and Andrew Ball. He has performed at most of the major UK concert halls, and across Europe and North America. He has been a Concordia Foundation Artist since 2010, a Park Lane Group Artist since 2013, and is a member of the Lipatti Piano Quartet who recently won the Elias Fawcett Trust Award at the Royal Over Seas League Music Competition, and will make their Wigmore Hall debut in April 2017. 

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