Soloists

Mathilde Milwidsky

Classic FM Rising Star and Gramophone One to Watch Mathilde Milwidsky has been praised by The Strad for her “perfect intonation and beautiful shaping and colouring.” She was the only British violinist selected for the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition, where Le Soir hailed her “mastery and musicality.”

A prize-winner at the Windsor Festival and Aurora Music Competitions, Mathilde has performed at major venues including Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, and Flagey Brussels, with broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, Scala Radio, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Her recordings on Toccata Classics and Guild have earned five-star reviews from Fanfare and Musical Opinion.

In 2024, Mathilde was appointed Professor of Violin at the Royal College of Music, London.

Charlotte Spruit 

Described by Gramophone as “an artist whose technique and musicality are matched by a broader artistic imagination,” violinist Charlotte Spruit is acclaimed for her passionate and energetic performances. She won First Prize, the Audience Prize and the Genuin Classics Prize at the 2022 Leipzig Bach Competition, was a 2023 YCAT Artist, and was named a Classic FM Rising Star (2024) and Gramophone One to Watch (2025) following her debut album Le Mercure Galant for Linn Records.

Highlights of 2025/26 include her recital debut at Berlin’s Boulez Saal, returning to the Concertgebouw with Angus Webster, and performing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Charlotte plays an 18th-century Italian violin on loan from the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation.

Coco Tomita

Japanese violinist Coco Tomita first came to prominence after winning the BBC Young Musician 2020 Strings Category. Her debut album Origins (Orchid Classics) received outstanding reviews from The Strad, Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine and The Guardian, and was chosen as Apple’s “Disc of the Month” in April 2022. The recording has since earned more than 5.5 million streams, and her second album, Echoes, was released in 2024.

Coco performs widely across the UK with pianist Simon Callaghan, with recent debuts including Saffron Hall, Bechstein Hall, Harrogate International Festival, St George’s Bristol and Dubai Opera. She has appeared as a soloist with the Nagoya Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Philharmonie Baden-Baden. She studies with Kolja Blacher in Berlin.