James Heron

Violin & Viola

Recent Performance Experience

CURRENT TRIALS LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: Principal viola trial FREELANCE WORK AND PAST TRIALS PHILHARMONIA: Viola trial, extra work (from 10.2023) LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: Viola trial, extra work (from 10.2019) ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA: No. 5 first violin trial BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: First violin trial THE HALLÉ: Tutti viola trial, sitting up as co-principal for recordings BBC NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF WALES: No. 3 viola trial; guest co-principal LONDON SINFONIETTA: Extra player BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Viola trial CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Sub-principal viola trial	02.2024 – 10.2022 – 10.2023 04.2022 – 06.2023 11.2019 – 06.2023 09.2019 – 01.2022 06.2019 – 02.2020 11.2018 – 06.2019 05.2015 – 10.2017 – 03.2018 06.2017 – 12.2017

CURRENT TRIALS
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: Principal viola trial

FREELANCE WORK AND PAST TRIALS
PHILHARMONIA: Viola trial, extra work (from 10.2023)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: Viola trial, extra work (from 10.2019)
ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA: No. 5 first violin trial
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: First violin trial
THE HALLÉ: Tutti viola trial, sitting up as co-principal for recordings
BBC NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF WALES: No. 3 viola trial; guest co-principal
LONDON SINFONIETTA: Extra player
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Viola trial
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Sub-principal viola trial

02.2024 –

10.2022 – 10.2023
04.2022 – 06.2023
11.2019 – 06.2023
09.2019 – 01.2022
06.2019 – 02.2020
11.2018 – 06.2019
05.2015 –
10.2017 – 03.2018
06.2017 – 12.2017

Orchestral Training

PACIFIC MUSIC FESTIVAL – Sapporo and Tokyo, Japan Orchestral performances under Valery Gergiev, Jun Märkl, and Andris Poga as co-principal viola. Chamber music performances at various venues with coaching from Rainer Küchl and Hans Peter Ochsenhofer. MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST – Santa Barbara, CA, USA Private lessons with Donald McInnes, Richard O’Neill, and Cynthia Phelps during festival; solo performance masterclass with Cynthia Phelps; chamber music masterclasses with Alan Gilbert, Jeremy Denk, and Jerome Lowenthal. Orchestral and opera performances as co-principal viola. ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL — Aspen, CO, USA Recipient of the Polonsky Foundation Award as violinist and violist. Private lessons with James Dunham. Two-month orchestral and opera festival.	07.2015-08.2015 06.2014-08.2014 06.2013-08.2013

PACIFIC MUSIC FESTIVAL – Sapporo and Tokyo, Japan
Orchestral performances under Valery Gergiev, Jun Märkl, and Andris Poga as co-principal viola. Chamber music performances at various venues with coaching from Rainer Küchl and Hans Peter Ochsenhofer.

MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST – Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Private lessons with Donald McInnes, Richard O’Neill, and Cynthia Phelps during festival; solo performance masterclass with Cynthia Phelps; chamber music masterclasses with Alan Gilbert, Jeremy Denk, and Jerome Lowenthal. Orchestral and opera performances as co-principal viola.

ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL — Aspen, CO, USA
Recipient of the Polonsky Foundation Award as violinist and violist. Private lessons with James Dunham. Two-month orchestral and opera festival.

07.2015-08.2015

06.2014-08.2014

06.2013-08.2013

Scholarships and Awards

DELIUS PRIZE: WINNER – Competition across all instruments HELEN WORSWICK SCHOLARSHIP – Royal Academy of Music JAMES WRIGHT AWARD – Royal Academy of Music (academic and musical)	04.2017 09.2014 06.2014

Musical Education

ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC – London, UK. Bachelor of Music in Violin and Viola Performance, First Class Honours. Extensive orchestral work in symphonic orchestras and string ensembles as principal player in the Sainsbury Soloists and the RAM Symphony Orchestra, contemporary and period chamber orchestras. Professors: Philippe Honoré and Felix Schmidt, Mateja Marinkovic, Paul Silverthorne, Jon Thorne.	2013-2017

ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC – London, UK.
Bachelor of Music in Violin and Viola Performance, First Class Honours.
Extensive orchestral work in symphonic orchestras and string ensembles as principal player in the Sainsbury Soloists and the RAM Symphony Orchestra, contemporary and period chamber orchestras.
Professors: Philippe Honoré and Felix Schmidt, Mateja Marinkovic, Paul Silverthorne, Jon Thorne.

2013-2017

References

PHILIPPE HONORÉ	FELIX SCHMIDT

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Instruments
Violin & Viola, Viola, Violin