Mathilde Milwidsky
Violin
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).
Mathilde is a laureate of competitions including the Royal Overseas League Competition (First Prize, 2017), Windsor Festival International String Competition (Third Prize, 2019), Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition (semi-finalist laureate 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.
She performs as a recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician widely across Europe at festivals including Verbier, Krzyżowa, IMS Prussia Cove, Musikdorf Ernen, 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.
Her debut CD - of the world premiere recordings of Agnes Zimmerman’s three Violin Sonatas alongside acclaimed pianist Sam Haywood - led to Mathilde 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 worked closely with leading composers including Brett Dean, Roxana Panufnik, Mark Simpson, Cheryl Frances Hoad, Deborah Pritchard, Garth Knox and Huw Watkins and has given the world premiere of violin and piano works by Sally Beamish and 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 prestigious Deutschlandstipendium. She was twice invited to Verbier Festival’s prestigious Soloist and Chamber Academy, where she studied with Midori, Augustin Dumay and Gábor Takács Nagy and further inspiration has come from Leonidas Kavakos, Maxim Vengerov and Miriam Fried.
In September 2024 Mathilde took up the position of Professor of Violin at the Royal College of Music.
She plays a rare 1790 Nicolas Lupot violin.