British violinist Rose Hinton has followed in her Grandfather’s footsteps to become a professional musician. She enjoys a varied, freelance career, performing as part of both classical and commercial ensembles.

 

An avid chamber musician, Rose is violinist of the recently formed Duo Hellier – Ensemble alongside Co-Principal Cellist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jonathan Ayling.

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She is also a member of Ensemble Mirage - classical music group based in the UK (Royal Overseas League Competition finalists and Making Music Selected Artists 2020) led by clarinettist Matthew Scott.

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As a freelance orchestral player, Rose performs and tours internationally with some of the UK’s leading Symphony orchestras, including the BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, The Hallé, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Northern Sinfonia. 

As a result of this she has played at all of London's major concert halls including The Barbican, Cadogan, Royal Festival, Royal Albert and Wigmore Halls as well as The Roundhouse.

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She has made multiple appearances at the BBC Proms and the Aldeburgh Festival as well as at many of the UK's most prestigious music venues. These include Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, The Sage (Gateshead), Snape Maltings Concert Hall (Suffolk), The Bridgewater Hall (Manchester) and Leeds Town Hall. 

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In addition to performances at home, Rose has worked internationally throughout Asia, Europe, South America and The United States. Personal highlights include performances at the Lucerne Festival, Wigmore Hall, Berliner Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie, The Concertgebouw, La Scala and Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco under the baton of eminent conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Semyon Bychkov, Marin Alsop, Sir Mark Elder, Edward Gardner, Vladimir Jurowski, Vasily Petrenko, Sir Antonio Pappano, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Oliver Knussen and David Zinman.

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Rose feels privileged to have played alongside countless classical and commercial stars; some of the most notable of which being Martha Argerich, Pinchas Zukerman, James Ehnes, Leonidas Kavakos, Sir Bryn Terfel, Sir Rod Stewart, Andrea Bocelli and Kylie Minogue.

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Alongside classical music, Rose enjoys performing jazz and popular music as part of electric string group 'Vortex Trio' as well as City String Ensemble and the critically acclaimed Down for the Count Swing Orchestra.

She features on a number of Down for the Count's albums, including Lockdown for the Count: volume 1 & 11, Swing into Christmas as well as two singles: I've Got You Under My Skin and When I Fall In Love, which reached no.1 on the itunes jazz charts. Furthermore, she has played on a number of albums with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra including remastered versions of albums by Aretha Franklin, Rod Stewart and Roy Orbison.

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Rose has performed as a concerto soloist in London with The Arch Sinfonia, The Kingston Philharmonic and The London Graduate Orchestra as well as The Lavenham Sinfonia and Wolsey Orchestra in Suffolk. She has given concerts as a solo artist with The Concordia Foundation and gives other solo and duo recitals around the UK, including performances of music written by her Grandfather and Great Uncle, Cyril and Clifford Hellier. 

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Previously, Rose was leader of the Stella Quartet, a dynamic, intercontinental string quartet that gave performances in the UK and abroad. The Stella Quartet led educational and community workshops with the Brent and Camden music services as well as Spitalfields Music, Vital Arts and Wigmore Hall Learning. The quartet completed a fellowship with The Open Academy department at The Royal Academy of Music as well as Wigmore Hall Learning in 2016.

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Alongside a busy performing career Rose works as a private violin teacher and is a freelance chamber music coach with the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music, ProCorda, and Cambridge Suzuki Young Musicians. Rose has held peripatetic violin teaching positions at Ipswich High School for Girls, Suffolk as well as Queens College, Harley Street.

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Rose graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2015 having studied with Professor Tomotada Soh and  received lessons from virtuoso soloists Tasmin Little and Maxim Vengerov. 

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She plays on an old French violin made in 1798 by Nicolas Lupot.