Helena Ruinard MA(Cantab)  PGDip(RCM)

Violin

Date of Birth: 25/04/78

 


ORCHESTRAL WORK

·       Welsh National Opera, trial – No.3 Second Violin

·       English Symphony Orchestra, trial – No.3 Second Violin

·       City of London Sinfonia

·       Ulster Orchestra

·       Southbank Sinfonia – member 2004

·       Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Concert Orchestra

·       Brandenburg Sinfonia and Baroque Soloists

·       London Soloists

·       Diapason Ensemble

·       Ad hoc orchestras and ensembles, including period instrument and contemporary

 

CHAMBER MUSIC AND SOLO

·       Concerto with Southbank Sinfonia in Anghiari Festival, Italy

·       UK Sibelius Society; Lauderdale House; Stourbridge Local and Live etc., Navarra Quartet

·       Cambridge Music Festival, RAM Chamber Ensemble

·       Aldeburgh Festival, in asc. with Britten-Pears School Contemporary Composition Course

·       St James's Piccadilly, duo and Wallace Ensemble

·       RCM Junior Fellows concert, Arnold Quartet

·       British Library, RCM Chamber Ensemble

·       Riverhouse Barn, Walton; Guildford URC Music Society; St Olave's Hart Street; Regent Hall; Merton Abbey Mills; RCM; Cambridge Music Societies; venues in London and the south east

 

WORKSHOPS & COMMUNITY MUSIC

·       Blackheath Halls Young Artists Scheme – workshops in Blackheath

·       Southbank Sinfonia initiatives

·       Independent workshops for schools in London and Surrey

·       RCM Higher Education Summer School, member of staff

 

EDUCATION

·       Royal College of Music PGDip Solo/Ensemble Performance 1999-2001

·       Cambridge, Selwyn College BA in Music 1996-1999

Professors

     •  Yossi Zivoni  •  Susanne Stanzeleit  •

 

AWARDS & PRIZES

·       Countess of Munster Award

·       Dartington International Summer School Bursary to study with Ruggiero Ricci

·       Cambridge Intercollegiate Instrumental Award; Roe Prize for Musical Performance

·       Toshiba Chamber Music Award (2nd Prize)

·       National Schools' Chamber Music Competition (U16 winners)

 

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Helena Ruinard studied with Yossi Zivoni at the Royal College of Music until 2001, supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, and before that at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where she held an Intercollegiate Instrumental Award. Since graduating from the RCM she has pursued a freelance career, playing with various orchestras including that of Welsh National Opera, the English Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and various period instrument ensembles whilst giving concerts with pianists, with the Navarra String Quartet and other chamber ensembles. In smaller ensembles she has played a significant number of contemporary pieces, including premieres of work by Phillip Neil Martin, Kalevi Aho, Mark Bowden and Anna Meredith. Last year she was a member of the new orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia, with which she gave a performance of Mozart's Violin Concerto in G major at the Anghiari Festival, Italy.

 

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