Abi Davies

Abi is a professional cellist from Manchester. She has completed her masters degree at the Royal Northern College of Music with Petr Prause. She has performed with the National Youth Chamber Orchestra and played in venues such as Symphony Hall Birmingham, Birmingham Town Hall, Bridgewater Hall, and Cambridge University. She has toured with her orchestra, Vivace, in Poland, Croatia, Belgium and Barcelona. Abi has had coaching from world renowned quartets such as The Carducci Quartet and The Chillingirian Quartet. Abi has played in musicals such as Oliver!, Fame, Singin' in the Rain, West Side Story, The Last 5 Years and The Sound of Music. At the age of 15, Abi completed her grade 8 and performed Elgar's Cello Concerto at Bushall Hall in Solihull. She then went on to study with Helen Edgar of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Abi participated in the Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet weekend at Chetham's School of Music for two years where she had coaching from the Carducci Quartet and other professional musicians such as Pavel Fisher, Raphael Todes, and Graham Oppenheimer. When Abi was 17 she was accepted into the National Youth Chamber Orchestra which concluded with a concert at Cambridge University. In 2014 Abi was accepted into four different music colleges with scholarships around the UK and took her place at the Royal Northern College of Music starting in September 2015. She has performed in many orchestras over her time at the college and was principal cellist of the RNCM Symphony Orchestra in March 2020. She is also principal cellist of the Northern Film Orchestra. Abi toured the UK and Russia as part of the Britten Shostakovich Festival Orchestra in 2019.