Topsham Music Festival - Charlie Lovell-Jones - Violin

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Charlie Lovell-Jones debuted at a sold-out Royal Festival Hall debut aged 15. He has
since soloed with orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, English Chamber, Noord
Nederlands, Sinfonietta Cracovia, RT Concert, Sendai Philharmonic and Yamagata Symphony,
broadcasting on television and radio. In 2017, BBCNOW premiered Charlies composition for
violin, soprano and orchestra, Cariad Cyntaf, with Rebecca Evans and himself as soloists. He has
worked with conductors including John Wilson, Edward Gardner, Sir Mark Elder, Rumon Gamba,
Peter Oundjian, Daniela Candillari, Louis Lohraseb, Ken Takaseki, Moritz Gnann, and Michael
Seal.
Charlie was the youngest-ever member of the John Wilson Orchestra, aged 14. At the
BBC Proms 2021, he debuted as concertmaster of Wilsons multi-award-winning Sinfonia of
London (SoL), with whom he has recorded many critically-acclaimed CDs, including his debut
concerto recording of the Walton Violin Concerto, which released in February 2025. Charlie has
found success in several international competitions, including BBC Young Musician 2016, and the
Sendai 2019, Shanghai Isaac Stern 2020, and Joachim 2021 International Competitions.
Charlie was a Christ Church Prize Scholar at Oxford University, where he graduated in
2020 with a Gibbs Prize in Music. He received a Bicentenary Scholarship at the Royal Academy of
Music, and graduated in 2022 with the Strings Postgraduate Prize. In the same year, he released
his debut recital album on Linn Records as part of the RAM Bicentenary Series. He won the
Hattori Foundation, Harriet Cohen, John Fussell, Drake Calleja and Countess of Munster Trusts
awards, and is a J&A Beare Violin Society Artist. Charlie studied for over ten years with Rodney
Friend MBE, and from 2022-2024, at the Yale School of Music with Augustin Hadelich.
Charlie has enjoyed masterclasses with Ida Haendel, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Vadim Repin,
Menahem Praessler, Pinchas Zukerman, James Ehnes, Leonidas Kavakos, Tai Murray, and with
Ida Kavafian at the Lincoln Center. He has also coached with Ani Kavafian, Boris Slutsky, and
cellist of the Brentano Quartet, Nina Lee.
Charlie is in regular demand nationally and internationally, and has soloed at venues
including Smith Square Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, the National Concert Hall Dublin, the
Snape Maltings, the Wigmore Hall and the Konzerthaus Berlin. His 2024-25 season includes
further SoL recordings and concerts, performances of Bach, Brahms, Britten, Bruch, Sibelius,
Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, and Vaughan-Williams Concertos, and several duo and trio recitals including
his debut at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Charlie plays a fine 1777 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin, generously loaned by a
benefactor.

Charlie will be accompanied by Julian Chan - who will be giving a solo piano recital on Sunday Evening in St margaret's Church