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Netti at The Crooked Clef
Children’s concert introducing the exciting sound world of the string family, particularly the bass!
We also have a concert for children available to perform at a school or in conjunction with a venue visit. It has been put together with the aim of keeping children active as audience members, as well as educating them about the sound world of the larger stringed instruments. We are particularly aware of the double bass being an endangered instrument and needing to promote it to younger generations. We aim to encourage children to seek out local music service hubs to start these instruments if our visit ignites their curiosity!
Carina Drury
Carina has held a lifelong love for music. She enjoys a busy career as a chamber musician and continuo player and her playing has been described by BBC Radio 3 as ‘singing across the centuries’.
She was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied with Philip Sheppard and Jonathan Manson, and later with Richard Lester at the Guildhall, supported by
the THCW trust.
Carina toured as principal cello with the European Union Baroque Orchestra in 2010, and has since performed as guest principal with the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, Dunedin Consort, La Serenissima, Oxford Bach Soloists and Camerata Ireland. In 2024 Carina spent six weeks touring the west coast of Australia as guest principal cellist with Australian Baroque.
As a soloist she has performed a C.P.E. Bach Cello Concerto at the National Concert Hall in Dublin with the Orchestra of St. Cecilia (2013) and Vivaldi’s Double Cello Concerto with Vladimir Waltham and La Serenissima at St Martin in the Fields (2022, 2023), a recording of which was released with Signum Records in 2024 on La Serenissima’s Vivaldi x 2-2 album.
A chamber musician at heart, Carina is a founding member of Ensemble Augelletti, the BBC New Generation Baroque Ensemble 2023-2025.
Carina is fascinated with the connections between traditional Irish and Italianate baroque music in Ireland in the 18th century. She released her first solo album ‘Irlandiani’ to critical acclaim in November 2020, thanks to Arts Council of England funding, collaborating with the renowned Irish flautist Eimear McGeown. The album has been played on BBC Radio 3, RTE Lyric FM and Deutschlandfunk Radio. She was awarded an Arts Council Ireland Emerging Artist Grant in 2021 in order to perform the album programme live in her hometown of Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, and she has toured the album programme around the UK and Ireland.
In 2022 Carina and her ensemble Irlandiani were awarded a Continuo Foundation grant in order to record a second album, Smock Alley, which was released in 2023, receiving a double 4 star review in BBC Music Magazine.
When not playing the cello, Carina can be found baking cakes at home which she brings to rehearsals to share with her colleagues!
Rosie Moon
Rosie Moon is a versatile double bassist specialising in both historically informed performance and modern repertoire. Equally at home on bass violin, violone in G and modern double bass, she performs as a principal and continuo player with leading ensembles across the UK and Europe. Her exploration of Dragonetti’s works highlights the expressive and virtuosic possibilities of early double bass repertoire on period instruments.
In 2024, Rosie performed live on In Tune with Sean Rafferty, playing two of Domenico Dragonetti’s 12 Waltzes. She subsequently performed the complete set in recital at JAM on the Marsh Festival and at The Painted Church, Cambridge. The waltzes were first introduced into her repertoire at the Swedish Church in 2023 for The Northern Star Festival.
Rosie was principal bass for English Baroque Soloists in December 2024 under Christophe Rousset as part of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras, and continues to tour with the orchestra throughout 2025/26 as both principal and tutti player. She has also performed with other major period ensembles including The Gabrieli Consort and Players, La Nuova Musica, Opera Settecento, The Sixteen, The King's Consort and The Hanover Band.
She studied with Peter Buckoke at the Royal College of Music and later with Mirella Vedeva and Alberto Bocini at the Geneva Conservatoire, also receiving regular coaching from Franco Petracchi. During her studies she performed as principal bass under distinguished conductors including Bernard Haitink, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Charles Mackerras, John Wilson and Roger Norrington.
Alongside her period work, Rosie maintains an active modern and contemporary career. She has performed with Britten Sinfonia, Aurora Orchestra, London Contemporary Orchestra and London Contemporary Voices, appearing at festivals including the Aldeburgh Festival and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. She has premiered new works, recorded for BBC broadcast, and collaborated on projects spanning chamber music, opera, orchestral repertoire and electronic performance, reflecting a broad and distinctive artistic output.