Timothy Ridout

BBC New Generation Artist in 2019, Timothy is one of the most sought-after violists of his generation. Among his prestigious awards there are the Jeffrey Tate Prize in Hamburg and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship. He performed as a soloist with the Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and Orchestre National de Lille, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Camerata Salzburg, and the BBC Symphony, and with conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, David Zinman, Gabor Takács-Nagy and Sir Andras Schiff. He is regularly invited to important festivals, including Lucerne, Lockenhaus, Heimbach, Bergen, Evian, Aspen, Enescu Festival and Marlboro Academy. He collaborated with Joshua Bell, Isabelle Faust, Janine Jansen e Christian Gerhaher, to name just a few. He plays on a viola by Peregrino di Zanetto c.1565 – 75.