Steve Smith
Steve Smith is one of today’s pre-eminent contemporary guitar players. A genuine multi-instrumentalist and composer he is a master of many forms and styles. His compositions have been performed in the USA, France, Sweden, Finland and the UK. He has lectured at the Royal College of Music junior department, and has been involved in many of the ground breaking education projects of the London Sinfonietta. Steve returns for a second year to conduct the 2011 London Mandolin Festival Concerts.

Anna Langley
By day, a computer geek at the University of Cambridge, by night a lute and mandolin teacher and conductor of the Moonlight Mandolins. She started learning recorder, ‘cello and harpsichord at the age of 12, then took up the lute a year later. She played keyboards with a various bands, and then moved into the recording studio as a sound engineer and musician. Having unplugged, she played bass for a scratch jazz band, and sang with the Pink Singers in London. She took up the mandolin seriously in 2006 and joined the Moonlights shortly afterwards, and became musical director in 2010. Anna is our principal mandolinist for the 2011 London Mandolin Festival.