Will Harvey
Will Harvey is a London-based violinist and is the co-founder and Managing & Artistic Director of Parallax Orchestra.
Will was a founding member of UK rock band 'Dry the River' (RCA Records) and played around 500 shows with them between 2009-2014.
He then went on to play as part of singer-songwriter Dodie’s band, doing numerous world tours and recordings as violinist and string arranger until 2021.
As well as playing regularly in the studio, Will is an in-demand violinist in the orchestral world regularly playing in groups such as The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra (regular no.2 and no.3), English Touring Opera, London Mozart Players and more.
Maddie Cutter
Maddie is a cellist and co-founder and co-administrator of Parallax Orchestra.
Maddie studied the cello at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She has quickly gained a reputation as a collaborative and versatile cellist, performing live and recording alongside a variety of bands such as Arctic Monkeys, Anna Calvi, Kojey Radical and LYR. Maddie is a permanent member of Anna Meredith's band and their album "FIBS" was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2020.
She has worked in the classical contemporary music scene with pioneering ensembles London Contemporary Orchestra, 12 Ensemble and Her Ensemble, and also enjoys a career as a theatre musician at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Maddie collaborates regularly with composers for film and TV and has played on soundtracks for films Midsommar, Beau is Afraid, The End We Start From, The Kitchen and series Peaky Blinders and The Ipcress File.
Simon Dobson
Simon Dobson is a trumpet player, composer, producer and principal conductor of the Parallax Orchestra. As well as conducting and working as an MD internationally, he is a critically-acclaimed and widely-performed composer and a recipient of two British Composer Awards for his works 'Symphony of Colours' and 'Journey of the Lone Wolf'.
As well as conducting Parallax Orchestra he also regularly conducts the Metropole Orkest, The Heritage Orchestra and has also conducted the RPO and RPCO.
In 2014 he wrote his first full-length film score 'The Battles of The Coronel and the Falkland Islands' which was commissioned by the British Film Institute and received its premiere with fully-restored film in the Archive gala concert of the London Film Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
As a founding member of the session horn crew Badcore Horns, Dobson has performed as a trumpeter on over thirty albums to date, from Madness and Martha Reeves to Dry the River and We are the Ocean. He recently toured with London hip-hop band Lazy Habits and is currently the trumpeter of the Plymouth band Antimatador. In addition to his composition and performance work, Dobson is a regular studio arranger and has written strings for numerous records.
In 2015 Dobson released his first solo composition album entitled 'Euneirophrenia' which contains the first brass band test piece to be printed to vinyl in nearly 30 years.