Eloise MacDonald

Violin

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS

BBC Philharmonic – Trial Tutti Firsts, December 2023 – May 2024
The Halle – Trial Tutti Seconds, September 2022 – July 2023
CBSO – Trial Tutti Seconds, September 2022 – March 2023
London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) 1st and 2nd violin
extra sitting up to No. 6
BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBCSO) 1st and 2nd violin extra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) 2nd violin extra
Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) 2nd violin extra
RTE CO 2nd violin extra

HISTORICAL ENSEMBLES
Southwell Music Festival Baroque Orchestra
Brandenburg Baroque – Principal Second
Armonico Consort
Endelienta Baroque
Ensemble OrQuestra Baroque – Leader
Eboracum Baroque – Leader
Suffolk Baroque

CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLES
London Sinfonietta 2nd violin extra
Manchester Collective
East London Music Group
London Contemporary Music Festival Orchestra
Ensemble Intercontemporain

SESSION WORK AND SHOWS
Hamilton the Musical
COOL Music Ltd
Orchestrate Session Orchestra
Shakespeare Sinfonia for Toccata Next
BBC 4 Documentary ‘Musicians, Maestras & Mothers’
Gstaad Menhuin Festival Academy, ARTE TV
The Endless River – Pink Floyd, Abbey Road Studios

ORCHESTRAL TRAINING
EUYO 2021
Southbank Sinfonia 2021/20
Chipping Campden Festival Academy 2020
Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme 2018

CHAMBER MUSIC
Chiltern Arts Festival with Colourscape Collective
12 Ensemble at V&A Dundee
Brighton Early Music Festival with Lilium Convallium
Waterperry Opera Festival
Artistic Director of Retake Concerts
Schiermonnikoog Festival with Maconchy Quartet
Maconchy Quartet - WYE Valley 20th Winter Festival
and Buckingham Palace
Stamford International Music Festival
Sacconi Quartet at the Langham
Temple Ensemble

CHAMBER ORCHESTRAS
Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) 1st violin extra
Britten Sinfonia 2nd violin extra sitting up to No. 4
Royal Northern Sinfonia (RNS) 1st and 2nd violin extra sitting up to No. 5
Royal Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (RPCO) 2nd violin extra
London Chamber Orchestra (LCO) 2nd violin extra
City of London Sinfonia (CLS) 2nd violin extra sitting up to No. 4
12 Ensemble
Sinfonia Cymru

Bath Festival Orchestra – Principal Second

OPERA/BALLET COMPANIES
English National Opera (ENO) 2nd violin extra
Welsh National Opera (WNO) 2nd violin extra
Birmingham Royal Ballet/New Adventures (Matthew Bourne)
Royal Ballet Sinfonia
Shadwell Opera
Merry Opera Company – Leader

FREELANCE ENSEMBLES
London Concert Orchestra
Multistory Orchestra
Herensemble
London Concertante
Covent Garden Sinfonia
Piccadilly Sinfonietta
Trafalgar Sinfonia
Brandenburg Sinfonia
Orpheus Sinfonia
London Film Music Orchestra
Orchestra for the Earth – Leader
Meridian Sinfonia
Down for the Count
Hastings Philharmonic – Principal Second
Outcry Ensemble
London Firebird Orchestra
London International Chamber Orchestra
Roman River Festival Orchestra
Mahogany Opera

SOLO
Through the Noise with Alexandra Whittingham
London Handel Festival Corelli Concerto with
Adrian Butterfield and Southbank Sinfonia
Benedetti Foundation Ambassador
BBC Radio 4, Janacek Violin Sonata
Nice International Summer Academy
Telemann Concerto for Three Violins with
Catherine Martin and Consort of 12
Quattro Corde Festival
Cambridge International String Academy
Forum Musikae
Resonance FM, Bruch Violin Concerto
Dvorak Romance at St. John's Smith Square

EDUCATION
Royal College of Music – MPerf (Distinction) and BMus with Radu Blidar (Violin) and Catherine Martin (Baroque) 2013 – 2019
Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP) – Erasmus with Philippe Graffin (Violin) and Itamar Golan (Chamber Music) 2018

REFERENCES:
Joana Valentinaviciute (RPO)
Eugene Lee (Philharmonia)

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Instruments
Violin, Baroque Violin