Violin virtuoso returns to Newbury to play with town's symphony orchestra
London-born violinist Mathilde Milwidsky is returning to Newbury to play the Korngold violin concerto in D Major, on Saturday, March 25. She has been invited by the Newbury Symphony Orchestra (NSO) to join them for a second time following her popular success playing the Prokoviev Violin Concerto No 1 with the orchestra in November 2021.
The concert, at St Nicolas Church, begins at 7.30pm.
Born in 1994, Milwidsky has performed as a soloist at venues in the UK such as the Royal Festival Hall, the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall as well as across Europe. She has also appeared on BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’, BBC Radio 4, Radio Swiss Classic, Yle Radio Suomi (Finnish National Radio) and Hessischer Rundfunk.
Mathilde's studies began at the Royal College of Music Junior Department where she was a Tsukanov Scholar taught by Viktoria Grigoreva and David Takeno. She then studied at the Royal Academy of Music as a full scholarship student under György Pauk, graduating in July 2017 with First Class Honours and the Regency Award for notable achievement, the Louise Child Memorial Prize for highest-achieving graduate and the Marjorie Heyward Fund for the highest violin mark of the year. She is currently studying under Professor Mi-kyung Lee at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, in Munich.
Milwidsky has been praised in The Strad magazine (2017) for her "perfect intonation and beautiful shaping and colouring, comprehensively nailing each new stylistic and emotional universe."
The NSO will also play Shostakovich’s Festive Overture and Stravinsky’s The Firebird.
Tickets are £15 for adults and £5 for under-18s. They can be bought online from the NSO website – www.newburysymphonyorchestra.org – or purchased on the door.
The Newbury Symphony Orchestra is one of the oldest non-professional orchestras in England and is now in its 143rd season. The orchestra comprises 60 amateur musicians of all ages and draws its members from four counties. The resident professional conductor is Dr Jonathan Williams, Director of College Music at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, and the leader is Wendy Clark.
