Timothy Ridout

Viola

With awards including the inaugural Sir Jeffrey Tate Prize in Hamburg and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, Timothy Ridout has confirmed his position at the forefront of young European soloists. He has been a BBC New Generation Artist since 2019 and joined the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Center in 2021.

Orchestral engagements include appearances as soloist with the BBC Symphony and Philharmonia orchestras, the Tonhalleorchester Zürich, the Paris and Lausanne Chamber Orchestras, the Lucerne and Hamburg Symphony Orchestras, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Orchestre National de Lille; whilst recitals and chamber performances include the Wigmore Hall, Ojai Hall, Vienna Musikverein and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, among many others. In August 2021 he made his BBC Proms debut performing the Walton concerto under the baton of Sakari Oramo.

A Harmonia Mundi recording artist, Ridout has worked with conductors including Sylvain Cambreling, Christoph Eschenbach, Sir András Schiff and David Zinman; whilst his chamber music collaborations encompass projects with Nicolas Altstaedt, Joshua Bell, Frank Dupree, Jeremy Denk, Isabelle Faust, Steven Isserlis, Janine Jansen, Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt,and Jonathan Ware, among many others.

He plays on a viola by Peregrino di Zanetto c.1565-75 on loan from a generous patron of Beare’s International Violin Society.