Mathilde Milwidsky, Violin

A return visit from the sublimely gifted Mathilde Milwidsky (2023 Classic FM Rising Star and One to Watch by Gramophone Magazine). Mathilde has been praised by The Strad’s Charlotte Gardner for her “perfect intonation and beautiful shaping and colouring, comprehensively nailing each new stylistic and emotional universe …”.

She was the only British violinist to be selected for the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition, during which Belgian newspaper Le Soir praised her performance for its “mastery and musicality” and in 2021 and 2022, Mathilde was invited to the Verbier Festival Academy on the Soloist and Chamber Music Programme, as one of only seven violinists chosen worldwide

Her capacity to win prizes seems endless! She was awarded 1st prize in the String Section at the 2017 Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition, 1st prize and Audience prize at the 2018 Aurora Music Competition in Sweden, was a semi-finalist laureate of the International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition (Hanover) in 2018 and in 2019, won 3rd prize and a special prize at the Windsor Festival International String Competition. While studying in Germany, she was awarded the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben’s Musikinstrumentfonds Competition, won 3rd prize in the Bundeweiter Hochschulwettbewerb of the Peter-Pirazzi-Stiftung and the prestigious Deutschlandstipendium scholarship.

Mathilde has worked closely with leading contemporary composers including Brett Dean, Roxana Panufnik, Mark Simpson, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Garth Knox, Huw Watkins, Sally Beamish and Joseph Phibbs.

Mathilde has performed in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Flagey (Brussels), Kings Place, Cadogan Hall and St John’s Smith Square, has frequently appeared on radio, including Scala Radio, BBC Radio 3’s In Tune, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Radio Swiss Classic and is regularly invited to perform at international festivals.

With such a busy schedule, it’s remarkable that Mathilde has managed to find the time to make recordings (two to date). Her debut CD, released in 2020, featured world première recordings of Agnes Zimmerman’s three Sonatas for violin and piano (with pianist Sam Haywood) and on her latest recording (of the Beethoven Romances for Violin and Orchestra) she performs with the National Symphony Orchestra.

Mathilde Milwidsky is also a Professor of Violin at the Royal College of Music.