Zoë Martlew - cellist, composer, performer, broadcaster - studied at the Royal College and Academy of Music, Clare College, Cambridge and the Chopin Academy in Warsaw. She performs and records over the world as soloist and with many contemporary music groups, rock, pop and electronica artists including Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Radiohead, Super Furry Animals, Sir Paul McCartney, Mark Ribo/Ceramic Dog, Plaid and Katie Melua.  

 She has worked extensively in dance and theatre as composer/performer, including a recent collaboration with Antonia Franceschi of New York City Ballet and Ballet Black at the Lindbury Studio, Royal Opera House and POP8 at the Giant Olive Theatre, London; Avant-Garde Collaboration Co’s Fin du Temps in Boston; M.D. for the Ballet Boyz show Encore at Sadlers Wells and productions at the Donmar Warehouse and National Theatre. 

Recent projects include her one-woman cabaret show Z Unleashed; improvisation comedy group Impropera, Leicester Square Theatre, Greenwich Comedy Festival; a judge on BBC2 TV's Maestro; commentator/presenter for the BBCTV Proms, BBC 2 Newsnight Review and Radio 3 Here and Now, member of UK jury for Eurovision Song Contest 2009.

She is much in demand for educational activities and has worked with disabled and autistic children, drug addicts, in prisons, universities and music colleges. Zoë is naturally blonde and draws the line at Country and Western and Dutch Techno.