The Wild Arts Ensemble specialises in re-orchestrations of the large symphonic repertoire, on the concert platform and in the recording studio. The ensemble is formed of some of the UK’s leading musicians, who are at the forefront of the new generation of players equally at home in modern and historically informed performance.

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.

A graduate of Wimbledon School of Art Laura is a London / Midlands based set and costume designer for opera, theatre and television.

Set and Costume Design Credits include: Magic Flute – Royal Academy of Music; Cunning Little Vixen – Royal Academy of Music; Turn of The Screw – Barnes Festival; Cosi Fan Tutte and La Finta Gardiniera – Ryedale Festival Opera. The Juniper Tree (UK premiere). Hecuba -Catharsis Theatre
Costume Design Credits include: Peter Pan Reimagined – Birmingham Rep; Fortitude – Sky Atlantic (Assistant Designer); The Victorian Bakery – BBC TV (Assistant Designer); The Long Christmas Dinner/The Dinner Engagement, Guildhall School of Speech and Drama, Dubai, Rostov, New York – National Opera Studio; English Eccentrics – British Youth Opera; Landscapes – English National Opera; Riders to the Sea and Savitri – British Youth Opera; La Boheme – Nevill Holt Opera; Macbeth – NI Opera/WNO (Associate Designer); The Flying Dutchman – NI Opera; Noye’s Fludde – NI Opera.

Emma Large is a young director with experience in scripted and devised theatre, musicals, opera, and events. She also facilitates theatrical workshops, leading puppetry, stage combat, and movement sessions.

​Emma recently worked with Aylesbury Opera on Dialogues of the Carmelites, which ran in March 2025. It was positively reviewed in Opera Magazine, with Mark Valencia commenting that “Poulenc’s final Salve Regina was devastating in its stylized simplicity, perhaps the best solution I’ve seen to staging this mass execution”. She has assisted James Hurley for Vache Baroque and she’s due to assist Danielle de Niese this summer.

​Emma completed an internship with the Birmingham Rep, where she facilitated the delivery of two summer schools. This led to further work within the Creative Learning department, including becoming Assistant Director for a Main House production, developed for the Uncommon Riches Festival. She was recently Tour A Director for the schools tour of Jam Jar Theatre’s ‘Penguins’. ​​

Emma is a first-class honours graduate in English and Drama from the University of Birmingham.