Based in London, Beatrice is a much sought after chamber musician, soloist, orchestral leader and teacher. In 2016 she founded the Eusebius Quartet with long-time chamber music colleagues with whom she has recorded quartets by Bartok, Haydn, Schubert and most recently Korngold. They were 2018 finalists at the Royal Overseas League competition and will took up a residency at Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh last Spring. The Eusebius Quartet’s debut album was released last year with SOMM Recordings: a collection of chamber music by Erich Korngold including the Piano Quintet with pianist Alasdair Beatson. The album received 5-star reviews from all major critics and was BBC Music Magazine’s ‘record of the month’.

Beatrice is a popular chamber music partner and appears often at chamber music festivals in and around Europe and the UK including most recently Fitzrovia Arts Festival, Wye Valley, Hatfield House, Kuhmo, Marsac, Festival Resonances, OCM Prussia cove and has been lucky to collaborate with many wonderful musicians. In 2012 Beatrice founded her own Chamber Music Festival in Lewes, which has run every year since, attracting such eminent artists as Bengt Forsberg, Iestyn Davies, Alina Ibragimova, Guy Johnston, Jonathan Cohen, Alasdair Beatson, Philip Higham and many, many more.

Beatrice is an enthusiastic teacher and has coached and run junior courses for MusicWorks Chamber Music. Together with the Eusebius Quartet she has organised tours of primary schools introducing chamber music and live performance to many young children; most recently in and around Lewes as a part of the Lewes Chamber Music Festival community outreach.

 

 

At home on both modern and period set-up Beatrice has led ensembles such as Arcangelo directed by Jonathan Cohen, the Multi-Story Orchestra, LCO and has played with the OAE under Roger Norrington, the ORR (& led) EBS under Sir John Eliot Gardiner and has been guest Principle and assistant Concertmaster with the Welsh National Opera on numerous occasions. She is a member also of the Sinfonia of London conducted by John Wilson.

Recent solo performances include Bruch’s violin concerto at St John’s Smith Square in July, at the 40th anniversary Gala concert for the East Sussex Youth Orchestra with conductor Colin Metters and last Spring, Korngold’s violin concerto with the North London Symphony Orchestra. Future notable projects include recording the String Quartets of Fauré and Elgar with the Eusebius Quartet for release in 2025.

Beatrice completed her undergraduate degree at Kings College London University in 2007 where she gained a 1st while simultaneously studying violin at the Royal Academy of Music with Howard Davis. For her post-graduate studies she went on to the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, taking a year out at the Conservatoire National de Superieur de Music in Paris where she had lessons with violinist Olivier Charlier.

Beatrice plays a violin by Spiritus Sorsana of Turin from c.1730.