Auriol Evans

Auriol Evans is a British cellist based in London who performs extensively across the UK as a soloist and chamber musician. She has recently completed her Master of Arts degree at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Josephine Knight, achieving a distinction and an Arts Diploma for performing an outstanding final recital.  Whilst at the Academy Auriol was awarded the prestigious Leverhulme fellowship, the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial prize and won the Florence Hooton cello concerto competition for her performance of Haydn D. Recent highlights include recitals at St. James Piccadilly and a performance of Tchaikovskys Rococo Variations with the New Mozart Orchestra. Auriol enjoys exploring new music and ensembles, and in August 2013 appeared on BBC Radio 3 performing Param Vir’s ‘Beyond the Reach of the World’ for Cello and Percussion. In a collaboration between the Manson Ensemble and The London Sinfonietta she performed Stockhausen’s rarely played ‘Gruppen’ at the Royal Festival Hall, this was also broadcast on BBC Radio 3. More recently in February this year Auriol performed an arrangement of Ravel’s Bolero for 4 cellos on BBC Intune. Since graduating from the Royal Northern College of Music in 2011 where she studied with Hannah Roberts, Auriol has been principal cellist of the Britten-Pears Orchestra, and Co-Principal of the Aldeburgh World Orchestra under the direction of Sir Mark Elder. She works as an extra player with the Philharmonia and The BBC Symphony Orchesta and is currently on trial for a Number 4 position with The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Auriol started learning the cello at the age of seven and when she was nine years old, she played the role of the young Jacqueline du Pré in the feature film Hilary and Jackie.  Soon afterwards, she became a pupil at Chetham’s School of Music studying with David Smith.  Auriol is the recipient of the Help Musicians UK Postgraduate Performance Award, the Albert & Eugenie Frost Music Trust Award, and is kindly supported by the Countess of Munster Trust, the Kathleen Trust and the Albert Cooper Charitable Trust.