Michael Schofield

Viola

BRIDGE STRING QUARTET member since 1989

CDs – all well received with Editors choice in Strad and Classic CD and 5* in BBC Music Magazine and Diapason:
“It is a sign of the sheer quality of the Bridge Quartet’s playing that even in the composer’s more idiomatically remote passages, the music comes surging off the page” Strad Sep 2009

- London recitals at Conway Hall, Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall
- International concerts in USA, Switzerland, Croatia, Spain, Italy and France
- Festivals including English Music Festival, City of London, Kings Lynn and Newbury
- City of London Festival concert broadcasts on Radio 3, Featured musicians on BBC 3 In Tune
- Coaching Dartington, Switzerland, France and Italy. Musicians in Residence For Hounslow and at Roehampton Institute, London

ORCHESTRAL SOLOISTS WORK
- Philharmonia soloists; “Peter and the Wolf” tour 2008
- CLS Prom “Soloist” in Dumbarton Oaks
- Feinstein Ensemble – Principal with concerts at Q E H and Purcell Room

FREELANCE ORCHESTRAL EXPERIENCE
- Principal work with New Mozart Orchestra
- Regular extra with Philharmonia since 1989
- Regular extra with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Britten Sinfonia
- CLS
- OSJ

OPERA EXPERIENCE
- Glyndebourne Touring Opera Orchestra 1991-2002
- English Touring Opera – Guest Principal Viola
- Welsh National Opera touring and recording
- Birmingham Royal Ballet

VIOLIN and VIOLIN/VIOLA DOUBLING
- Member of BBCSO (on violin 1983-89)
- Garden Opera 2009
- Violin/ Viola in BBC Radio 3 Elgar's Third (Sony Award Winner for Drama)
- Regular deputy for Me and My Girl (violin/viola)
- Regular deputy for Sunset Boulevard
- Marguerite

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Instruments
Viola, Violin

Ensembles
Bridge String Quartet