Isobel Neary-Adams

Viola

Isobel Neary-Adams is currently studying with David Takeno alongside being in the second year of her Music degree at the University of Oxford as an academic and music scholar.

She cultivated her passion for chamber music at MusicWorks, Festival Resonances Academy (Belgium) and more recently IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music seminar. This November and December she participated in Maiastra chamber music projects with David Waterman and Florence Cooke.

She has also recently played in the Holywell music room, Oxford, West Road concert hall, Cambridge and at Frinton, Wye Valley and Winchester Chamber Music Festivals. In April 2023 she attended the Masterclasses at IMS Prussia Cove in Thomas Reibl’s class. She was co principal viola of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and has recently started working with Sinfonia Cymru. She is hugely grateful to Oxford University for enabling collaborations with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective (Mendelssohn octet) and the Castalian Quartet (Brahms sextet). 

Isobel is looking forward to performing Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in February with Fidelio Orchestra Oxford, and the first movement of Walton’s viola concerto in the final of the Oxford Philharmonic concerto competition in March. She has upcoming chamber music engagements as Young Artist in residence at 2024 Penarth Chamber Music Festival and with the newly formed Telyn Quartet.