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Matthew Bain

Violin

Orchestral
Professional

  • BBC National Orchestra of Wales (trial – Violin 2 No. 3 – May 2011-January 2012)
  • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchesta (trial – Violin 2 tutti – February-December 2011)
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (trial – Violin 2 No. 4 – July 2010 – June 2011, now extra player)
  • Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra (regular extra player since 2011, violin 1 and 2)
  • BBC Concert Orchestra (Violin 1 extra player – September 2010 onwards
  • English National Ballet (Violin 2 extra player – August 2012 onwards)
  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Violin 1 extra player – November 2010 onwards)
  • Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra (Violin 1 extra player – December 2012 onwards)
  • Oxford Philomusica (violin 1 extra player - 2005 onwards)
  • London Show Orchestra (violin 1 extra player  - 2012 onwards)

Training

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra rehearsals - RCM Orchestral Pathway
  • European Union Youth Orchestra  (Principal Violin 2 – April 2011-April 2012)
  • Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra (Leader- 2010)
  • London Symphony Orchestra String Academy
  • Camerata Scotland  (Leader)
  • Oxford University Philharmonia  (Leader)
  • Oxford University String Ensemble – co-founder, leader and conductor
  • Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra  (Co-leader)
  • National Youth Orchestra of Scotland (Leader)
  • Britten-Pears Orchestra

Education/Outreach  

  • Worked with BBC SSO and schoolchildren to make a ‘Discovering Music’ programme for BBC Radio3
  • Wider Opportunities Violin Support Teacher (RBKC) and private teacher
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra outreach department – various projects (2011)
  • RCM Sparks “Composition Springboard” - composition workshops with RBKC school children
  • Musicians of the Future Mission Violin (RCM/Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
  • Group lessons and orchestral coaching

Competitions and Prizes

  • European Union Youth Orchestra - Alexander Pavlovic Award for most promising string player in the orchestra (2011)
  • Lucy Ann Jones Scholarship and Knights of the Round Table Awards, Royal College of Music

Concertos

  • Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 - Oxford Sinfonia Eroica
  • Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending - Oxford Festival Orchestra - Christ Church Arts Festival

Recitals

  • Edinburgh International Festival - St Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Edinburgh
  • Jacqueline-du-Pre Music Building, Oxford 

Qualifications

  • Royal College of Music – Advanced PGDip in performance  (2008-10)
  • Master of Studies, dist. Oxon  (2008)
  • BA First Class Honours Oxon (2007)
  • Dip.ABRSM (dist), violin performance  (2006)

Professors: Dona Lee Croft, Evgeny Grach,  Bernard Docherty, Caroline Balding
Referees: Dona Lee Croft - Violin Professor, RCM

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Instruments
Violin