Thomas Gould Violin

Concerts with the Salomon Orchestra:

October 2005

Thomas Gould enjoys a busy and varied career as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader. Thomas studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Gyorgy Pauk, graduating in 2005 with First Class Honours and gaining numerous awards and prizes. Whilst at the Royal Academy of Music, Thomas was chosen to lead all of its orchestras under many distinguished conductors, including Alexander Lazarev, Tadaaki Otaka, Thierry Fischer and Nicholas Braithwaite. In September he will lead the joint symphony orchestras of the Academy and the Juilliard School for a performance in the BBC Proms conducted by Sir Colin Davis at the Royal Albert Hall. Thomas has been a prize-winner in international competitions such as the European Music Prize for Youth (1999) and the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artists (2004).

Thomas is first violinist and a founding member of the Artea Quartet, which won the Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Ensemble Award in 2004 and was selected for the Tillett Trust’s Young Artists’ Platform in 2005. He has recorded works by Herbert Howells and Howard Thomas on the Meridian label, and by Webern and Stravinsky for the RAM.

For more information on Thomas visit his website via our Links page.

Please note the last likely update of this biography was at the last appearance with the Salomon Orchestra (see list below the title).

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2006

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