Mathilde Milwidsky

Named a 2023 Classic FM Rising Star: 30 under 30, and Gramophone Magazine’s One to Watch, British violinist Mathilde Milwidsky has been praised by The Strad’s Charlotte Gardner for her "perfect intonation and beautiful shaping and colouring, comprehensively nailing each new stylistic and emotional universe as she went”, her “mastery and musicality” (Le Soir, Belgium 2024) and her “divinely beautiful” playing (Süddeutsche Zeitung). She has rapidly made a name for herself as one of the most versatile, poised and captivating of British soloists.

Mathilde perfoms as a recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician widely across Europe at festivals including Verbier, Krzyzowa, IMS Prussia Cove, Musikdorf Ernen, Swaledale, Fränkische Musiktage and Edinburgh and at leading concert halls such as Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Cadogan Hall. She has collaborated with artists including Avi Avital, Anthony Marwood, the Doric Quartet and members of Quatuor Ébène and her frequent solo radio appearances include BBC Radio 3 In Tune, Scala Radio’s One to Watch and Deutschlandfunk Kultur’s Hörprobe.

Mathilde has won prizes at major competitions including the Royal Overseas League Competition (2017), Windsor Festival International String Competition (2019), Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition (2018), the 2020 Deutsche Instrumenten-Musik Fond Competition of the "Deutsche Stiftung Musik Leben" and was a St John’s Smith Square Young Artist and an Artist on the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme.

Her debut CD - of the world premiere recordings of Agnes Zimmerman’s three Violin Sonatas alongside acclaimed pianist Sam Haywood - led to being named Classical Music Magazine’s Artist of the Month and was widely praised by critics: ‘she is simply terrific, her tone, technique and temperament the ideal mix and balance” (Fanfare magazine, USA); “great conviction by honest and talented performers” (Crescendo magazine, France). Her latest recording, of the Beethoven Romances for Violin and Orchestra alongside the National Symphony Orchestra, similarly received glowing reviews.

Mathilde has a particular interest in contemporary music and has worked closely with leading composers including Brett Dean, Mark Simpson, Sally Beamish, Garth Knox and Huw Watkins, with a new Violin Concerto currently being written for her by the acclaimed composer Joseph Phibbs.

Born in London in 1994, Mathilde attended the Royal Academy of Music on a full scholarship with György Pauk and subsequently studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich under Mi-kyung Lee, supported by the Deutschlandstipendium. She was twice invited to Verbier Festival’s prestigious Soloist and Chamber Academy, where she studied with Midori, Augustin Dumay and Gábor TakácsNagy and further inspiration has come from Leonidas Kavakos, Maxim Vengerov and members of the London Haydn Quartet.

Faculties / departments: Strings

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