David Chernaik is a successful cellist, conductor, scholar, educator and CEO & Programme Director of Apollo Music Projects. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and came to England in 1972, benefiting from free music education through the Inner London Education Authority. He was a member of the Guildhall Strings, touring and recording widely. He founded the Apollo Chamber Orchestra in 1989, making several well-received recordings, including a live concert recording of Mendelssohn’s Scottish and Italian Symphonies described by the Penguin Guide to Compact Discs as “second to none”. He discovered and performed L’amore industrioso, a delightful opera buffa by the Portuguese composer João de Sousa Carvalho (1768), edited and performed Granados’s opera Goyescas, and recorded his own arrangements of Portuguese Modinhas with soprano Lorna Anderson, a long-standing collaborator in many performances of Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. He founded Apollo Music Projects in 2004, delivering inspiring music education programmes to over 18,000 primary and special school children in north and east London so far. He has written articles about Vibrato in Baroque and Classical Music and Implied bass lines in Bach’s solo works for violin and cello.