Annabel Kidd began learning the violin aged 8 and is currently in her second year of study at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, learning under Andrea Gajic.
Education
• Great Walstead School: 2000-2010
• Brighton College: 2010-2015
• Royal Conservatoire of Scotland: 2015-
Experience
• Leader of Brighton and Hove youth Philharmonic Orchestra: 2010
• National Youth Chamber Orchestra of Great Britain: 2012-2016
• Leader of Brighton and Hove youth String Ensemble (BYOSE) 2013-2015
• Worked with Rachel Podger on Bach Partita No.2: 2012
• Tutored in the Brighton and Hove Junior Youth Orchestra: 2013
• Performed Mozart's Violin Concerto No.3 with the Brighton Festival Orchestra: 2015
• Performed Mozart's Violin Concerto No.3 for a pilot show on Channel 4: 2015
• Formed ‘Cavatina String Quartet’: 2016
• Received coaching from Pedro de Alcantara 2016-
• Performs Frequently with ‘Erskine String Quartet’: 2017
• Performed in a tour of Handel’s Messiah with ‘Opera Dei Lumi’: 2017
• Taught as ‘assistant to Andrea Gajic’ on the International violin and viola summer course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland: 2017
• Worked on NYCO
• Side by Side performance with RSNO
Awards, Scholarships and exams
• Music scholarship at Great Walstead School: 2006
• Grade 5 music theory with merit: 2007
• Won the Haywards Heath Music Society Cup: 2008
• Music scholarship at Brighton College: 2010
• Award for ‘Innovation’ with BYOSE at ‘Music for reginal youth’ competition: 2014
• 60% scholarship at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland: 2015
• DipABRSM: 2015
Past and present teachers
• Ben Wragg: 2012
• Andrew Sherwood
• Simon Smith
• Christopher Hirons
• Andrea Gajic: 2015-
• Joseph Swenson: 2018