Menuhin Chamber Music Festival 2025

He was a pupil of Ruth Nye and Hamish Milne at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal Academy of Music and burst on the scene in 1996 playing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in a British tour with Lord Yehudi Menuhin and the Warsaw Sinfonia, and a recital at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the South Bank Prokofiev Festival. 

Described by International Piano Magazine as: “an armour-clad player of complete technique, a thinking musician, a natural Romantic.”

Singaporean award-winning concert violinist Ning, was the professor of Violin at the conservative Royal de Musique de Bruxelles and is currently Principal Teacher at the Yehudi Menuhin School, UK.

She was the second Prizewinner at the Queen Elizabeth Competition in 2001, won the Flemish Radio and Television in 2001 and won the Flemish Radio and Television Audience Prize in the same year.

She has performed with many world-leading orchestras.

His work embraces a wide range of ensembles and styles from period performances of early music to contemporary and popular music.

Since 2000 he has held the position of principal cellist in the English Touring Opera’s orchestra.

He also works regularly in the Theatres of London's West End, as well as seasons with Glyndebourne and Garsington Opera.

He plays on a cello made by Cornelius Kleynmann, dating from the late 17th century.

Scholar at Purcell School of Music with Mateja Marinkovic

Studied at Guildhall School of Music

Toured with Pressburg Chamber Soloists and performed with Nigel Kennedy, Sir Simon Rattle, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra and Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

She has performed concerto with Belmont Ensemble of London and chamber groups at St Martin in the Fields

Catherine is also a member of Artington String Quartet 

Violin teacher at Yehudi Menuhin School and Bedales School

Principal Conductor at Claud Powell Chamber Orchestra

Has conducted for Winchester Chamber Orchestra, SCYO, WSO, GYSO and a few others

Since graduating, Matthew has built strong relationships with Surrey County Youth Orchestra, Kingston Philharmonia, Instant Opera, Guildford Opera, Rose Opera and Hampshire County Youth Orchestra. 

As a chorister at Westminster Abbey, he sang for the Pope in St. Peter's Rome, toured Moscow and made his BBC Proms début as a treble soloist in Mahler's Das Klagende Lied with the BBC Symphony orchestra and chorus. 

Graduated from the Royal College of Music in 2004 where she studied viola with Ian Jewel and went on to further study with Garfield Jackson and Roger Chase. 

Principal viola of the Belmont Ensemble of London and the Alina Orchestra. She also plays regularly with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as many international tours. 

Currently teaches viola and violin at Charterhouse School. 

An American double bassist graduated from The Yehudi Menuhin School, and currently pursuing a BMus Hons degree at the Royal College of Music as a Neville Wathen Scholar.

International Society of Bassists 1st Prize, 15-18 Youth Solo Category (2023)

London Classical Music Competition 1st Prize (2023)

American Music Talent Competition 2nd Place (2023)v

Cellist from Italy

Graduated from The Yehudi Menuhin School in 2022. Filippo is continuing his studies at the Royal College of Music as a Nancy Wolfers scholar, where he continues to study with Alexander Chaushian.

He performed the Haydn D Major Cello Concerto as a soloist with the Dorking Chamber Orchestra. 

Fillippo has been awarded in several international and national competition prizes in Italy, such as “Concorso internazionale città di Stresa'', ''Concorso nazionale La Riviera nazionale Della Versilia'', ''Concorso La Riviera Etrusca''and ''Concorso Internazionale Salieri''