Who are the Amata Musica?
Martin Gatt (bassoon), Margaret Lynn (piano), Susan Dent (French Horn),  
Leslie Sheills (flute), Jane Finch (oboe), and Colin Parr (clarinet). 

Amata Musica
In 1984 the bassoonist, Martin Gatt took a 3 year sabbatical from his position of principal in the London Symphony Orchestra to become the first Head of Wind in the newly opened Hong Academy for Performing Arts, where he met Margaret Lynn, the distinguished pianist and Head of Academic Studies. During the three years they performed recitals, broadcasts and recordings together and when Martin returned to the UK in 1987 to resume his career in the LSO they continued their partnership, recording and performing as a duo. In 1998 Jane Finch ,who had enjoyed a fine career playing in the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Bournemouth Sinfonietta and Martin began playing chamber music together and were eventually joined by Colin Parr an old college friend of Martin's and the principal clarinettist of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for many years, when he retired to Totnes in Devon. Leslie Shiells , the Head of Wind at Millfield school, and the ex principal flautist of the South African Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, joined the group, and when Sue Dent, one of the foremost exponents of the natural horn and a Professor of both natural and modern horn at the Royal College of Music completed the ensemble it assumed the title of Amata Musica.