Timothy Ridout, BBC New Generation Artist and Borletti-Buitoni Trust fellow, is one of the most sought-after violists of his generation. This season he appears as a soloist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Metropolitan, hr-Sinfonieorchester, the Odense and San José symphony orchestra, and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, among others. In 2020, Ridout won the inaugural Sir Jeffrey Tate Prize from the Hamburg Symphony and joined the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 2021.
Other highlights of this season include recitals and chamber concerts at Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Philharmonie Köln. Furthermore, Ridout embarks on a South American tour with the Chamber Society of the Lincoln Center, returns to Taipei for a series of concerts, and tours Australia with Musica Viva.
In recent seasons, Ridout has debuted with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Chamber Orchestra of Paris, the Hamburg Symphony, the National Orchestra of Lille, the Salzburg Camerata, the Graz Philharmonic, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the Hallé, the BBC Symphony, the Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra, and has performed the Walton Concerto at the BBC Proms/Sakari Oramo and with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich/David Zinman. He has also worked with conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Lionel Bringuier, Gabor Takács-Nagy, Sylvain Cambreling, Nicholas Collon and Sir Andras Schiff.
Highly sought after as a chamber musician, Ridout has participated in numerous festivals throughout Europe, such as those of Rheingau, Bergen, Rosendal, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sion and Lockenhaus, and regularly collaborates with leading international artists such as Janine Jansen, Steven Isserlis, Joshua Bell, Isabelle Faust, Kian Soltani, Benjamin Grosvenor, Nicolas Altstaedt and Christian Tetzlaff, among many others.
Ridout records for the Harmonia Mundi label. His latest album, “A Poet’s Love”, was recorded with pianist Frank Dupree and contains selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and his own transcription of Schumann’s Dichterliebe. New releases include, among others, Berlioz Harold en Italie with Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg/John Nelson on Warner/Erato, and Bloch Suite for Viola and Orchestra and Elgar Concerto with BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Martyn Brabbins.
Born in London in 1995, Ridout studied at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with the Queen’s Commendation for Excellence. He completed his master’s degree at the Kronberg Academy with Nobuko Imai in 2019 and, in 2018, participated in the Chamber Music Connects the World program of the Kronberg Academy.
He plays a viola by Peregrino di Zanetto c.1565-75, on loan from a generous patron of the Beare’s International Violin Society.