Sarah Newbold studied the flute with Atarah Ben-Tovim and Alan Lockwood at Huddersfield Polytechnic and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Peter Lloyd. She then spent a year at the National Centre for Orchestral Studies.

Sarah is a member of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the New London Orchestra and formely of both Welsh National Opera and the London Philharmonic. As a freelance player she works with most of the orchestras in Britain and regularly with the Philharmonia and London Symphony Orchestra. Sarah is able to work in a great variety of musical styles and situations including opera, symphony and chamber orchestra, film sessions, contemporary music, period instrument, solo and chamber ensembles.

Since 1989 Sarah has been a Professor of Flute at the Guildhall School. She is sought after as an adjudicator and examiner and has given masterclasses and recitals in Greece, Finland and Norway.

As an accompanist, Zoë Smith has worked extensively in the UK and internationally with both singers and instrumentalists. A graduate of Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Music, she has developed strong links with Mexico, where she frequently performs and teaches.
She has received prizes in song accompaniment and has also specialised in flute repertoire, working in masterclasses and recitals with many leading flautists including Alexa Still and Alain Marion, and recording three CDs for flute and piano.

Since 1999 she has worked at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she is now Assistant Director of Music, teaching Piano Accompaniment and performing with many of the distinguished visiting artists.