| Biography | Matilda, 20, currently reads Music at Trinity College, Cambridge and studies the Trumpet with Will OSullivan, Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
SOLO
Matilda won the Brass Category of the BBC Young Musician of the Year and also the BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Award in 2014. These competitions opened up many opportunities, including performing as a soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra for Friday Night is Music Night on Radio 2 and with the Cory Brass Band at the European Brass Band Championships Gala Concert in Perth, Scotland, 2014. Matilda has appeared many times on television (BBC 4 and BBC South East) and on BBC Radio 2, including an appearance on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show.
She has also won many regional competitions including the Croydon Festival Concerto Competition, the Woking Young Musician of the Year, the Marlowe Young Musician of the Year and the Guildford Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Prize. In 2013, Matilda became the first ever trumpeter to win the prestigious Lutine Prize at the Junior Guildhall School of Music and was awarded the Principals Prize in her final year. Also, while studying at Junior Guildhall, she played solo flugelhorn on one of the 8 music barges at the Queens Diamond Jubilee Pageant.
Recently, Matilda reached the semi-final of the Arts Club Karl Jenkins Young Classical Artists Prize and performed at the Lower Machen Festival in Newport, Wales, the Deal Music Festival and the Sevenoaks Summer Festival as part of a solo recital tour, Summer 2015. She has performed in many prestigious concert venues, including the Fairfield Halls (Croydon), St. Martin-in-the-Fields (London) and the Mermaid Theatre (London).
ORCHESTRAL
Matilda is a Member of the European Union Youth Orchestra and has just toured Europe for six weeks playing Mahler and Shostakovichs Fifth Symphonies under conductors Xian Zhang and Gianandrea Noseda. Matilda will also be playing in their Eastern European tour next summer, 2016. From 2012-2014 Matilda held the position of Principal Trumpet in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and in her last year she was awarded the John Fletcher Brass Prize for her contribution to the orchestra. Her particular highlight was playing the First Trumpet part in Mahlers Fifth Symphony at the Barbican in January 2014, for which she received many complimentary reviews, including those from the Telegraph and the Guardian. During her time in the National Youth Orchestra, Matildas solos were broadcast live on Radio 3 and also on television (BBC 4) for her performances at the BBC Proms. In October 2014 Matilda was invited to participate in the Britten Pears Brass Camp in Aldeburgh, and she was also the Principal Trumpet of the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra from 2014-2015. Matilda was delighted to be Principal Trumpet in the reduced National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for the Queens Coronation Festival that was held in the gardens of Buckingham Palace in 2013.
CHAMBER MUSIC
Matilda is the Lead Trumpet of the Cambridge University Trumpet Ensemble (CUTE) and performs with them regularly throughout the year. She also takes part in the European Union Youth Orchestra Brass Dectet which performed in Vienna and Grafenegg, Austria and Bolzano, Italy. From 2012-2014, Matilda was the Principal Trumpet of the Junior Guildhall Brass Dectet (June 2016) |