Freya Goldmark is in her first year at the Royal College of Music studying violin with Maciej Rakowski and is a past pupil of the Royal College's Junior Department. She has performed extensively throughout Europe and Asia as a soloist giving performances of Vivaldi's Four Seasons in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpar, Penang and Bangkok and, as a guest soloist at the Rachmaninov Institute ,Russia performing Mozart's Concerto in D and giving solo performances. In 2012 she was invited to the Valdres Festival in Norway and her perfomance of Ravel's Tzigane was broadcast live on Norwegian national radio. She has also performed at festivals in France and Germany. In 2012 Freya won the Gordon Turner Memorial Prize (JDRCM) and in 2014 the Freda Dinn and Ida Mabbett String Prize (JDRCM). She is regularly invited to perform at festivals and music societies around Britain; in 2012 she gave a solo recital at the Albert Hall's Elgar Room and recent performances include recitals at Sidney Sussex, Cambridge and Magdalen College ,Oxford. Freya is a keen chamber musician. She has recorded and premiered early Britten string Quartets at The Red House Aldeburgh and in 2013 played at Sandringham for Prince Charles with her quartet. Most recently in 2014 Freya gave another Elgar Room recital with her JDRCM trio playing Beethoven and Schostakovich In 2013 Freya made her Cadogan Hall debut at the invitation of the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation; an organisation founded to nurture the talents of young people gifted in music and the arts. Following this she was invited to perform Chausson's Poeme in Moscow as part of the International Vladimir Spivakov Festival. Freya is very grateful to be a Foundation Scholar supported by a Douglas and Hilda Simmonds award at the RCM.