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Rosalind Ventris

British violist Rosalind Ventris is equally admired as a soloist, chamber music player, and educator. She has varied interests in music by women, contemporary music, and performance practice of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born around 1989, Ventris grew up in a musical household; her mother was an amateur violinist who took lessons and played chamber music at home, giving young Rosalind some of her first musical memories. Rosalind started on the violin but added studies on the viola at age eight and soon found herself drawn to the instrument, at first playing a violin strung as a viola. At ten, she enrolled in the Purcell School of Music. Ventris entered the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition in 2006, aged 17, and took the prize for most promising British entrant. She attended Cambridge University, studying music, and went on to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London for further studies with violinist David Takeno. Ventris has an extensive résumé as a concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber music performer. In the former capacity, she has appeared with the London Mozart Players, the European Union Chamber Orchestra, and the Belgian National Orchestra, among other groups. Recitals have taken her prestigious venues such as the Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Beethovenhaus in Bonn. Ventris was a member for some years of the Albion Quartet, where she participated in recordings of Dvořák string quartets performed along lines typical of the composer's lifetime. She has collaborated with many top musicians in chamber music, including violist Tabea Zimmermann, pianists Mitsuko Uchida and John O'Conor, and the Endellion Quartet. In 2017, Ventris was heard on the album Quickening: Songs by Robert Hugill. Her festival appearances include those at the West Cork, Marlboro, and Salzburg Festivals. In 2023, Ventris released her solo debut, Sola: Music for Viola by Women Composers, on the Delphian label. She is Director of Musical Performance and Performance Studies at Oxford University and professor of viola at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Ventris also serves as artistic director of the Cowbridge Music Festival in Wales.
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