NICK PEPIN has held Lay Clerk positions as counter-tenor in Durham, Portsmouth, and Denver (USA) cathedrals, at present being in Winchester cathedral choir, with whom he has made many CD recordings, recently a disk of Gibbons verse anthems (solo) with Hyperion. He sings frequently in oratorio, having appeared with Portsmouth Baroque Choir, Romsey Choral Society, the London Festival Orchestra, the

Northern Sinfonia, the Parley of Instruments, the Bournemouth Sinfonietta and the Bach Choir. Nick has given many recitals, accompanied by his mother, June, in the group ‘Pennine Parnassus’, in England, Sweden and the USA, and performs regularly in cathedral lunchtime recitals on both sides of the Atlantic. His first solo CD, entitled ‘Gentle Springs’, was issued on the new Charlemagne Music label, in which company Nick is a partner. His second CD 'A Christmas Celebration' was issued in 2005.

JUNE CLARK (Pepin), after studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London, worked as a composer with Alan Bush, subsequently publishing works under her maiden name of June Clark. As a pianist she studied with Cyril Smith, making her debut with Joan Ryall as a piano duo during the Bayreuth Wagner Festival. An international career, regular broadcasting with the BBC, major festivals, Wigmore Hall and

Purcell Room recitals culminated in their piano duo winning 1st Prize in the International Competition for Interpreters of Contemporary Music in Utrecht. In recent years June has revived her career in accompanying and composing, and is a partner in the newly created Charlemagne Music. June is married to David Pepin. June accompanies Nick on the two CD's, where she also plays a selection of piano solos.

TOM PEPIN trained as a graphic designer, with a special interest in computer graphics. He is also a talented musician, having been a boy chorister for seven years in St.Albans Cathedral. His combined talents of music and computers use these ideal abilities in recording and mastering the CDs to professional standards, whilst his design assets are put to full use in CD inserts and covers, and sheet music cover designs.

He composes his own unique style of electronic music, some of which will be issued on CD soon. He is a partner in Charlemagne Music.

DAVID PEPIN is a retired primary school teacher living in the North Pennines with his wife, concert pianist June Clark. As writer of the many books in the ‘Let’s Explore’ series for young people he published these popular guidebooks with Spectrum Publications, the company which was run by him and his wife. He is also author of the book ‘Discovering Cathedrals’ published by Shire Publications, which includes

many colour photographs taken by him and his wife. He is an accomplished watercolour painter, and black and white sketch artist, with some of his work in publications by other authors. An Anglican by tradition he is also a local preacher in the Cumbria Circuit of the Methodist Church, and is involved in various ecumenical organisations.

DAVID DIXON was born at Broadstairs, Kent in 1928. During the Second World War he was evacuated to Staffordshire with his school for four years. In later life he worked as a journalist for twenty years on provincial newspapers. He has published two books of poems entitled ‘Kicking Clouds’ and ‘Cloudkickers’ for children, from which some of the poems set to music are taken. During the 1950s,

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