Timothy Ridout is one of the most sought-after violists of his generation. He was a BBC New Generation Artist, the winner of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship 2020 and the recipient of the 2023 Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award.
Highlights of 2023/24 have included performances with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse under Kazuki Yamada and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Simon Rattle. He made his debut with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, returned to the USA to perform with the Camerata Pacifica and gave numerous chamber music recitals. This summer he makes his debut at the Salzburg Festival.
Timothy Ridout has collaborated with international orchestras such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Camerata Salzburg, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the BBC Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra, and with conductors including Sakari Oramo, Lionel Bringuier, Sylvain Cambreling, Nicholas Collon and András Schiff.
An iconic chamber musician, he has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Alice Tully Hall. He performs with the pianists Frank Dupree, Jonathan Ware and James Baillieu, as well as with distinguished colleagues such as Joshua Bell, Isabelle Faust, Christian Tetzlaff, Nicolas Altstaedt and Steven Isserlis. He is a member of the Teyber Trio, together with Tim Posner and Tim Crawford.
He records for harmonia mundi. His recent CD of Lionel Tertis’s arrangement of Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Ernest Bloch’s Suite for Viola and Orchestra follows impressive albums such as A Poet’s Love and Berlioz’s Harold en Italie with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg.
Timothy Ridout was born in London in 1995, studied at the Royal Academy of Music and in 2019 completed his Master’s at the Kronberg Academy with Nobuko Imai. In 2020 he won the first Sir Jeffrey Tate Prize from the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, and in 2021 he was accepted into the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Center.
He plays a viola made by Peregrino di Zanetto (c.1565—75), on loan from a generous benefactor of the Beare’s International Violin Society.
