Tamsin Waley-CohenViolin[Short Biography] An exceptionally gifted young violinist, Tamsin Waley-Cohen studied at the Royal College of Music where she won all available awards and was their String Player of the Year in 2005. Numerous competition successes include winning the 2005 Royal Overseas League String Prize and the 2007 J&A Beare Bach competition. Tamsin began her 2010 season with a solo violin recital in the Southbank centre, opening the Park Lane Group series, to high critical acclaim. She performs as a soloist with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of St John's, London Concert Orchestra and London Chamber Orchestra. She has played at Wigmore Hall, King's Place and Cadogan Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Barbican in London, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Bridgewater Hall Manchester, the Liszt Academy Hall, Budapest, as well as concerto and chamber music concerts in Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Holland, Germany, and Belgium as well as in the USA. From 2011 Tamsin has been appointed the Artistic Director of London’s Tricycle Theatre’s Chamber Music Series, and of Music at the Bargello Chamber Music Festival in Florence, Italy. Tamsin plays the 1721 ex-Fenyves Stradivarius violin. [Longer Biography] "Tamsin Waley-Cohen … held us rapt with daring and undaunted performances" The Times, Hilary Finch Tamsin Waley-Cohen performs as a soloist with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of St John's, London Concert Orchestra and London Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of the Swan, and the Brighton Philharmonic, under conductors including Andrew Litton, Jose Serebrier, Shlomo Mintz and Nicolae Moldoveanu. She has played at the Cadogan, Queen Elizabeth and Barbican halls in London, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Bridgewater Hall Manchester, the Liszt Academy Hall, Budapest and in venues across the UK and the Continent. This season will see performances at the Wigmore Hall and King's Place in London, as well as concerto and chamber music concerts in Italy, Holland, Germany, Spain, and Belgium, besides two CD recordings for the Brancusi Classics and Champs Hill labels, with music from the year 1917 by Debussy, Elgar Respighi and Sibelius and the other based on ‘Americans in Paris’ in the twentieth century. In demand as a recitalist, Tamsin’s partners include Huw Watkins and Stefano Greco. She also regularly plays with cellist Gemma Rosefield, and has worked with artists such as Andreas Haefliger, Heinz Holliger and Anssi Kartonnen. She has premiered works by composers including Torsten Rasch and Richard Causton; recently she gave the premiere of a new "Concertino" written for her by Huw Watkins. She is also values her experience as a chamber musician and has formed the Honeymead Ensemble, now resident at the Tricycle Theatre in London as well as the Honeymead Festival on Exmoor. In its first four years it has included Adrian Brendel, Guy Ben-Ziony, Leon McCauley, Thomas Carroll, and Sarah-Jane Bradley. Tamsin has performed in many festivals - Cheltenham, Academia San Felice, Florence Chamber Music, The Red Violin, The Two Moors, Stift and Presteigne, three years ago making her American debut with the Mendelssohn Concerto in the Bowdoin Festival. Tamsin Waley-Cohen was born in London in 1986. She became a Foundation Scholar, studying with Itzhak Rashkovsky, at the Royal College of Music where she won all available awards, including – twice – the concerto competition, and was their String Player of the Year in 2005. Numerous competition successes include winning the 2005 Royal Overseas League String Prize and the 2007 J&A Beare Bach competition. Tamsin has been a regular participant at the International Musicians' Seminar at Prussia Cove since she was 16. She has also participated in master classes given by Ida Haendel, Igor Ozim, and Ruggiero Ricci, the latter describing her as "the most exceptionally gifted young violinist I have ever encountered." From 2011 she has been the Artistic Director of London’s Tricycle Theatre’s Chamber Music Series, and of Music at the Bargello Chamber Music Festival in Florence, Italy. Since 2007 she has played the 1721 ex-Fenyves Stradivarius violin. Extracts from reviews: There is no doubt that Tamsin Waley-Cohen is supremely talented. Her technical mastery is allied to superb musicianship and a luminous sound… Musical Pointers.co.uk, Anna Michel Tamsin Waley-Cohen, the violin soloist for "The Four Seasons", who seems to be a fixture in Florence (to our great delight), overwhelmed us with a pressing and strongly felt interpretation of Vivaldi's music: the countless colours and phrasings required of the soloist, now elegiac, then virtuoso, now tempestuous, then popular, seem to be part of the genetic make-up of the young English artist and of her superb instrument . . . the utter tenderness of the Winter's middle movement was one of the most moving moments of these Seasons… Associazione Musicale Mario Tiberini Another fantastic concert from Charities Philharmonia …. The evening began with Bartok's Rhapsody No.1 for Violin and Orchestra. Tamsin Waley-Cohen poured sweetness into Bartok's customary ragged, biting sound-world, also coaxing humour from the piece with a broad palate of muted and luminous tones. Prokofiev's 1st Violin Concerto was on another level, both as a piece and as a performance. Prokofiev seems to be wryly testing the violinist in the opening few bars: just how softly, how breathlessly can you play this? Waley-Cohen answered in a whisper. …. but for all the bravura and show-stopping electricity, Waley-Cohen manages to root her sound within the orchestra, never dominating it or overpowering it." Musical Opinion, Robert Matthew-Walker The sheer professionalism, dedication and joy in playing of Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin) and Gregorio Nardi, (piano) was exemplary. . . Frederick Delius's "Sonata in B Major" begins like a new dawn-fresh-with a flowing melodic line and full rich piano accompaniment. . . Tamsin’s beautiful tone, perfect vibrato and intense feeling would have won the admiration of Delius himself a talented violinist. Gloucestershire Echo, Jill Bacon With playing that emphasized inherent musicality over the display of virtuoso technique for its own sake Waley-Cohen proved a persuasive and enchanting soloist. . . .In respect of the tone Waley-Cohen produced, this was possessed of an unforced singing quality that was notable in the higher register, which contrasted well with the rich chest voice of her instrument's lower ranges. Seen and Heard, Evan Dickerson Tamsin has also recently been featured in Muso, the Evening Standard Magazine, the Daily Mail, and Tatler Magazine. 
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