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The RPS writes, "Pure and simple, Timothy Ridout makes the viola
sing. There is such luxury and humanity in his phenomenal playing.
He compels audiences to think anew about the viola’s riches in his

ingenious arrangements and commissions. He’s winning new

recruits to the instrument through his dedicated educational
endeavours."

A graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Music and the Kronberg
Academy, where he studied with Martin Outram and Nobuko Imai,

Timothy is a former first prize winner at the Lionel Tertis and Cecil

Aronowitz International Viola Competitions and was named as a
2019 BBC New Generation Artist and awarded the
prestigious Thierry Scherz Prize at the Gstaad Festival Sommets

Musicaux. in 2021, he joined the Bowers Program of the Chamber

Music Society of Lincoln Center.

His solo engagements include performances with the BBC
Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony, Tonhalle Orchestra
Zurich, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Baden-Baden Philharmonie,

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, London Mozart

Players, and Sinfonia Cymru, Zagreb Soloists, Rotterdam
Philharmonic Strings, Young Musicians Symphony, and the
Birmingham Conservatoire Orchestra.

The complete list of this year’s Awards is as follows:

Chamber-Scale Composition – Ben Nobuto – SERENITY 2.0

Conductor – Martyn Brabbins
Ensemble – Manchester Collective

Gamechanger – Anna Lapwood
Impact – The Endz – The Multi-Story Orchestra

Inspiration – Torbay Symphony Orchestra
Instrumentalist – Abel Selaocoe – cello