Abbie Davis

Violin

Professional Orchestral
BBC Concert Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra - BMW Classics, Trafalgar Square. Conductor Sir Simon Rattle (2022)
Guildhall Session Orchestra
The Blaze Ensemble – Principal 2nd Violin
Highbury Players – Leader
South East London Orchestra – Guest Leader
Bushey Symphony Orchestra – Guest Leader, Violin 1 No.2
Bishops Stortford Sinfonia – Principal 2nd Violin
Harmony Sinfonia – Guest Leader
Kings Chamber Orchestra
Esterhazy Singers – Co-leader
Luminosa Choral Society - Leader
Great Bowden Camerata
Camden Light Orchestra - Lead & Coach the string section

Opera & Theatre Work
Three Sisters, The Globe (Dep. Violin)
Amahl & The Night Visitors, La Traviata, The Magic Flute, The Merry, Widow - St Albans Chamber Opera - Leader
The Addams Family, Hairspray, The Producers - HAODS
Into the Woods - Performers College
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat - Smash Arts (24 Hour Musical), TWODS
West Side Story - Putney Light Operatic Society
Spring Awakening - Cygnet Players

Contemporary Ensemble Work
Nu Civilisation Orchestra – Leader (Chaka Khan, Arthur Verocai, Corinne Bailey Rae, Laura Mvula)
Jazz Jamaica All Stars
Down for the Count Swing Orchestra – Leader, Tutti Violin
The Blackbyrds – Union Chapel
Hayley Warner – Union Chapel
Brixton Chamber Orchestra
Symphonica ft. Mr Switch / Ibiza Orchestra

Commercial
Sassenachs: Fiddle
Licence to Ceilidh: Fiddle
Soli Strings

Studio work
Soli Strings
JAM String Collective
RYBES
Flo Blue
Lillibet
Kalpadruma Collective (Asha Parkinson)
Alex Hall, two times BBC Introducing
Hui Hue, BBC Introducing 2021
Nash, BBC Future Sounds 2018

Chamber Music
Kari Novilla Quartet – Wigmore Hall
Kentish Ensemble
Ilario Ferrrari Septet, Kings Place, Pump House, Pizza Express, World Heartbeat Embassy Gardens
Peter Edwards Quintet
Kalpadruma Collective - Spice of Life, Toulouse Lautrec
Alex Webb, Ben Webster project ft. Tony Kofi – Watford Jazz Festival, Scarborough Jazz Festival, Watermill Dorking
String Ting & Steve Williamson UK Tour – 4* Financial Times

Solo
Recitals at St Martin-in-the-Fields, St. Michael’s Highgate, St Mark’s Hamilton Terrace, Milton Court Concert Hall
Bruch Violin Concerto No.1, Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, St. John’s, Smith Square
Solo engagements with the Great Bowden Camerata

Awards
Winner of the Lutine prize - Junior Guildhall’s soloist award 2007

Education
Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London - Guildhall Artist Masters (Advanced Instrumental Studies) 2021 - 2022
Professor: Krzysztof Smietana
University College London, BSc Mathematics. 2:1 Honours 2011 - 2014

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Instruments
Violin