Mathilde Milwidsky

MATHILDE MILWIDSKY

Mathilde Milwidsky was born in London in 1994. Described as 'an exceptional talent' by the legendary Maxim Vengerov, she made her Royal Festival Hall solo recital debut in 2014 as winner of the Philharmonia Orchestra's Martin Musical Scholarship. Her studies began at the Royal College of Music Junior Department where she was a Tsukanov Scholar and was taught by Viktoria Grigoreva and then Professor David Takeno. During her time there she won all available violin prizes, and, upon leaving, the Esther Coleman Prize for outstanding contributions to the RCM. Mathilde was subsequently awarded full scholarships to all of the London conservatoires and a place to read Music at Cambridge University (Trinity College). She chose to study at the Royal Academy of Music under Professor György Pauk, where she is currently a fourth-year undergraduate student and holds the Albert and Eugenie Frost Music Trust Scholarship. A member of the Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists, she has also led RAM Symphony and String Orchestras and won the Academy’s John Waterhouse Violin Prize and James Wright Award.

Mathilde has performed as a soloist at such venues as the Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, the Royal Albert Hall's Elgar Room, Three Choirs Festival, Kings Lynn Festival and the State Rooms at the House of Commons as well as across Europe in Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Poland, Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Portugal. She has been featured live on BBC Radio 3 as part of the 2015 BBC Proms Composer Portrait Series, performing solo and chamber works by Hugh Wood, and has also been broadcast solo on BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service and appeared live on the BBC One Show.

Awarded First Prize at the 2011 Madeira International Violin Competition held at the Escola das Artes in Funchal, Mathilde has won awards from the Hattori Foundation, the Philharmonia Orchestra's Martin Musical Scholarship, the Drake Calleja Foundation, the Tillett Trust, the Sir John Cass Foundation and First Prize at the Ealing Festival Concerto Competition. In 2016 Mathilde was one of twenty selected from three hundred to participate in the international Menuhin Competition and in 2015 she was a finalist in the Royal Academy's prestigious 'Patron's Award' and Orchid Classics' Young British Soloist Competition, held at the Wigmore Hall.

Mathilde is regularly invited to festivals across Europe such as Cheltenham, Prussia Cove OCM, Musique à Marsac, Musikdorf Ernen, Peasmarsh, Roman River, Wye Valley and Lewes, collaborating with eminent musicians such as Avi Avital, Huw Watkins, Tom Poster,  Ksenija Sidorova, Alec Frank-Gemmill, Alasdair Beatson, members of the Florestan Trio and Gringolts Quartets, as well as woodwind principals of the Philharmonia and die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Mathilde has also attended prestigious summer courses such as the  International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, the International Holland Music Sessions, the London Master Classes and Aurora Festival Masterclasses, studying with renowned professors and soloists such as Leonidas Kavakos, Maxim Vengerov, Mihaela Martin, Miriam Fried, Igor Ozim and Gerhard Schulz.