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  Orlando Jopling is a conductor and cellist. His conducting work has ranged from guest music staff and conducting positions at the Royal Opera House, Royal Ballet and English National Ballet, to performing and recording a huge range of orchestral repertoire with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the London Mozart Players and the Irish Chamber Orchestra among many others.

His music-making as a cellist has ranged from over 150 solo recitals, recording the 6 Bach cello Suites to critical acclaim, or a lifelong obsession with chamber music, to playing on numerous film scores and on tour as a guest tutti cellist with all of the great international orchestras based in London, most regularly with the Philharmonia and London Symphony Orchestra.

He loves collaboration and has created experimental new work with theatre companies, dancers and choreographers, poets, school pupils, students, folk musicians, global superstars like Sinead O'Connor, and visual artists.

He has appeared in several feature films and TV series as a conductor, most recently as Pierre Monteux conducting an early performance of the Rite of Spring. 

Aki Packe-Drury-Lowe is a producer and manager based in Colchester in Essex. She gained a master’s degree in financial engineering at the University of Michigan and enjoyed a twenty-year career in finance, before retraining in music business and artist management, studying at Berklee College of Music.

She went on to manage a number of bands in London and across the UK.

Aki joined Wild Arts as the producer of its Roman River Festival in 2023, before taking over as lead producer in autumn that same year. She has always been passionate about classical music and about jazz, and studied piano and ballet at the Conservatoire National de Région de Bourgogne.

She was raised in France and speaks four languages – English, French, German, and Japanese. 

Max Parfitt is a freelance producer, writer, and content creator based in London. After working with the Learning and Engagement department at Glyndebourne, he joined Wild Arts prior to their 2023 tour, first creating their programmes and web content, before taking over as company manager for their Summer Opera Evening tour and taking on a more regular production role.

As well as his work for Wild Arts, he collaborates regularly with writers group 26, producing events and contributing poems and articles to their projects and newsletters, as well as for charities such as the Felix Project and the Beyond Food Foundation. He also leads and assists with creative writing workshops, most recently for Scribeasy, working with children and young parents with special educational needs.

He studied music at Oxford University, where he was a choral scholar with Exeter College Chapel Choir, and he continues to deputise for various professional groups around London and Oxford.

Rebecca Milford is a soprano and outreach practitioner based in London. She studied at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where (supported by the Sheila White Scholarship) she graduated with a distinction in her Masters in 2022, and she was one of the first participants in the Wild Arts Young Artists Programme, before leading their first Primary School Music Project in 2023.

As well as her successes on the stage, including singing the title role in John Ramster’s Cinderella ‘23 (Merry Opera Company), Frasquita in Carmen (Opera Brava), and Head Hen (and Vixen cover) in The Cunning Little Vixen (Hampstead Garden Opera), she works regularly with Newham Music Service as a freelance project coordinator and music teacher, and provides workshops and vocal coaching for various groups (ranging from 1:1 singing lessons to sessions with English National Ballet’s children’s choir. She ran the “Stopping Place” project for Brolly Productions, and was lead vocal coach for Newham’s community opera Full Circle, performed at the Youth Proms.