Thea King became the professor of Clarinet at The Guildhall School of Music and was awarded both an OBE and DBE. The record label, Hyperion, describe her as 'the doyenne of English Clarinettists'. She was the inspiration for, and the dedicatee of many of the finest 20^th century works for clarinet by composers including Howard Blake, Gordon Jacob and Elizabeth Maconchy.

Jennet Campbell inherited the Radford’s cottage in St Anthony in Roseland, was a founding Trustee and served over 30 years as Honorary Secretary of the Radford Trust. She frequently opened her home to groups of young players to make music together in the Radford’s Studio. Aware that Cornwall’s geography made it more difficult for young musicians to work with teachers and performers from out of county, in 1984 she set up a residential weekend open to all the applicants to the Concerto class. The Radford Trust paid a leading professional player to come and run workshops and Jennet gathered local friends and teaching colleagues from the Cornwall Music Service to provide an orchestra for the Sunday afternoon so that everyone had the chance to experience playing the piece as a proper concerto.

Jane Fletcher in her role as Secretary of the Cornwall Music Festival, amongst many other responsibilities, took on the organisation of the workshop and the provision of instrumental accompaniment for the Concerto class. As Head Teacher of Gerrans Primary School Jane had become firm friends with Jennet who taught recorders then all wind and brass instruments there to whoever wanted to learn. Jane was a lovely pianist and piano teacher, and she accompanied all Jennet’s pupils in concerts and exams. The school was always represented at the festival by their band. Players who started there then joined St Anthony’s Noyse which Jennet started in 1979 and Jane took over.