Rosalind Ventris

Violist Rosalind Ventris leads an international career as a soloist and chamber musician, giving recitals at the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Dublin International Chamber Music Festival, Purcell Room, Bozar, Flagey, Slovak Philharmonic, Aldeburgh Festival and Het Concertgebouw. She has performed with orchestras such as the European Union Chamber Orchestra, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Cymru, l’Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie and the Belgian National Orchestra. Rosalind’s debut album (Delphian Records, 2023), featuring music by leading women composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, was ‘Instrumental Choice’ in BBC Music Magazine, and The Sunday Times hailed the recording as ‘rich and illuminating…a uniformly engrossing disc’.

As a chamber musician, Rosalind frequently performs as part of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective (Associate Ensemble, Wigmore Hall), and Trio Anima. She has collaborated with artists such as Mitsuko Uchida, Tabea Zimmermann, and Nicola Benedetti. She has been invited to perform at prestigious venues and festivals internationally, including the West Cork, Marlboro, Salzburg and Båstad Festivals, IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, the Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, and the Beethoven-Haus, Bonn. Praised for her ‘beguiling’ (Gramophone) and ‘gorgeously full-bodied playing’ (The Guardian), Rosalind is the Director of Musical Performance and Performance Studies at the University of Oxford and a Professor of Viola at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She is also one of the Artistic Directors of the Cowbridge Music Festival in Wales.