Priya
Mitchell
Violin
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Priya was born and grew up in Oxford. She began violin
lessons at the age of four, and at nine took up a place at the
Yehudi Menuhin School where she studied with David Takeno. Described
by The Strad as ‘One of the foremost violinists of her
generation’, Priya had the distinction of being chosen as the
British representative for the European Concert Halls Organisation
‘Rising Stars’ series in the 1997/98 season. Her year as ECHO
‘Rising Star’ included recitals in Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt,
Amsterdam, Brussels and her New York début at Carnegie Hall.
As a concert soloist Priya has performed the Bach Double Concerto
with Nigel Kennedy and the English Chamber Orchestra, the Bruch Concerto
with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sibelius Concerto
at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and
Yuri Temirkanov.
She made an extremely successful début with the BBC
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox. Recent highlights
have included performances of the Sibelius Concerto, the
Mendelssohn Concerto, Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending
with Sinfonia Varsovia (Yan Pascal Tortelier) at Symphony Hall,
Birmingham, as a tribute to the late Yehudi Menuhin, and a studio
recording of Berlioz Reverie et Caprice with the BBC Concert
Orchestra.
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