ANNA LAPWOOD Anna Lapwood was appointed as Director of Music of Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 2016. On appointment she was the youngest person to hold the position of Director of Music at an Oxford or Cambridge university college, taking up the position at the age of 21. As Director of Music, she conducts the chapel choir, and in 2020 she became the youngest Bye-Fellow in the College's history. In 2022, she was named an associate artist at the Royal Albert Hall, and an ambassador for the Cathedral Music Trust.

BONOBO Bonobo's sound is oriented on beats and samples but typically "soothing", combining influences ranging from club to world music. Pitchfork named him a key figure in the 2000s downtempo electronica scene, while The Guardian associated him with the recent popularity of "ambient world electronica". His earliest work was firmly based in trip hop, though his style soon became more upbeat and delved into genres such as jazz and traditional Indian music. He has collaborated with various artists, including Bajka, Andreya Triana, Erykah Badu, and Rhye, who have contributed vocals to songs on several of his albums.

In May 2022, Lapwood was unexpectedly invited to play with Bonobo and his band on their fifth and final night at the Royal Albert Hall after band members overheard Anna rehearsing on the Hall's main organ in the early hours of the morning. The band asked her to join their performance the next day. Eighteen hours later, an organ part had been written especially for Anna to accompany Bonobo for the closing show with an audience of 5,000. The video of the performance became popular on social media platforms, registering more than 5.6 million views on Lapwood's TikTok account alone. Anna later called the experience "genuinely life- changing" and "undoubtedly, the best moment of my life so far".