Jasper van der Klis studied piano performance with Sebastián Colombo and Alan Weiss at the Utrecht Conservatoire (BMus, 2015) and with Peter Bithell at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London (MPerf, 2017). At Guildhall School he also completed doctoral research on Busoni’s interpretative editions of Bach’s keyboard works (DMus, 2022; supervisors Professor Sir Barry Ife and Dr Christopher Suckling). His studies in London were supported by the Guildhall School Trust and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.

Jasper was a postdoctoral researcher on the Leverhulme Trust/Research England project Texting Scarlatti (2023-2025), which charted the spread of Scarlatti’s music by establishing the stemma of all c3,200 surviving eighteenth-century manuscript and printed copies of his keyboard sonatas. In this capacity, he was mainly involved with data collection and analysis and oversaw the collation efforts of 35 citizen scientists. He co-edited issue 23 of Sounding Board (British Harpsichord Society) and is co-authoring a chapter of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Domenico Scarlatti (Cambridge University Press, 2026) which is dedicated to the findings of the project.

As of September 2025, Jasper is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Musicology at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. As a 2025-2026 DISKAH Fellow, he is exploring the use of national Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) in musicological research using the Texting Scarlatti dataset.

Jasper has performed across Europe as a soloist and with various ensembles. During his studies he had the privilege to participate in masterclasses with many renowned musicians.

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Chiara Naldi studied piano performance at the ‘G. B. Martini’ Conservatoire in Bologna under Mauro Landi, earning a Master’s Degree with Honours. Concurrently, she also studied harpsichord and fortepiano with Silvia Rambaldi and Carlo Mazzoli.

She completed a Postgraduate Advanced Diploma at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance with Sergio de Simone, supported by a Trinity College Scholarship and the Henry Wood Trust. She studied improvisation with Douglas Finch and was joint winner of the Gladys Puttick Improvisation Competition in 2018.

Chiara was twice awarded the ‘Magone’ scholarship and participated in masterclasses with renowned musicians such as Pascal Rogé, Jonathan Plowright, and Margaret Fingerhut.

Chiara is a Visiting Lecturer in Piano Pedagogy at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She teaches at Dulwich College, Greenwich Music School, and Ark Greenwich Free School. Among her students are numerous prize-winning pupils. Her teaching philosophy centres on helping students create a lifelong relationship with music, tailoring lessons to meet individual needs while continuously developing her pedagogical methods.

Chiara has performed across Europe, India, and London at venues including Tate Modern, The National Gallery, Royal Opera House Mumbai, and Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. She collaborates regularly with singers and instrumentalists such as Antonia Thwaites (soprano) and Irina Korolevskaia (cello).

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