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James Heron

Violin & Viola

                                        Recent Performance Experience
CURRENT TRIALS
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: Principal viola trial

FREELANCE WORK AND PAST TRIALS   
PHILHARMONIA:
Viola trial, extra work (from 10.2023)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: Viola trial, extra work (from 10.2019)
ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA: No. 5 first violin trial
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: First violin trial
THE HALLÉ:
Tutti viola trial, sitting up as co-principal for recordings
BBC NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF WALES: No. 3 viola trial; guest co-principal             
LONDON SINFONIETTA: Extra player                    
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:
Viola trial           
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Sub-principal viola trial      


02.2024 



10.2022 – 10.2023
04.2022 – 06.2023
11.2019 
06.2023
09.2019 – 01.2022
06.2019 – 02.2020
11.2018 – 06.2019
05.2015 –
10.2017 – 03.2018
06.2017 – 12.2017

                                                        Orchestral Training
PACIFIC MUSIC FESTIVAL – Sapporo and Tokyo, Japan           
Orchestral performances under Valery Gergiev, Jun Märkl, and Andris Poga as co-principal viola. Chamber music performances at various venues with coaching from Rainer Küchl and Hans Peter Ochsenhofer.

MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST – Santa Barbara, CA, USA           
Private lessons with Donald McInnes, Richard O’Neill, and Cynthia Phelps during festival; solo performance masterclass with Cynthia Phelps; chamber music masterclasses with Alan Gilbert, Jeremy Denk, and Jerome Lowenthal. Orchestral and opera performances as co-principal viola.

ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL — Aspen, CO, USA            
Recipient of the Polonsky Foundation Award as violinist and violist. Private lessons with James Dunham. Two-month orchestral and opera festival.
07.2015-08.2015



06.2014-08.2014





06.2013-08.2013

                                                    Scholarships and Awards
DELIUS PRIZE: WINNER – Competition across all instruments                           
HELEN WORSWICK SCHOLARSHIP – Royal Academy of Music             
JAMES WRIGHT AWARD – Royal Academy of Music (academic and musical)   
04.2017      
09.2014
06.2014


                                                           Musical Education
ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC – London, UK.                 
Bachelor of Music in Violin and Viola Performance, First Class Honours.
Extensive orchestral work in symphonic orchestras and string ensembles as principal player in the Sainsbury Soloists and the RAM Symphony Orchestra, contemporary and period chamber orchestras.
Professors: Philippe Honoré and Felix Schmidt, Mateja Marinkovic, Paul Silverthorne, Jon Thorne.
 2013-2017        

                                                                References
PHILIPPE HONORÉ                       
                                             

FELIX SCHMIDT

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Instruments
Violin & Viola, Viola, Violin