Priya Mitchell grew up in Oxford and stud­ied with David Takeno at the Yehu­di Menuhin School and with Zachar Bron in Ger­many. She was then cho­sen as the British rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Euro­pean Con­cert Halls Organ­i­sa­tion ‘Ris­ing Stars‘ Series, this suc­cess led to high­ly acclaimed tours and per­for­mances with, amongst oth­ers, the Roy­al Phil­har­mon­ic Orches­tra, BBC Sym­pho­ny Orches­tra, BBC Phil­har­mon­ic Orches­tra, Bournemouth Sym­pho­ny Orches­tra, Eng­lish Cham­ber Orches­tra, Lon­don Mozart Play­ers, the Scot­tish Cham­ber Orches­tra, the Roy­al Liv­er­pool Phil­har­mon­ic and the Philharmonia.

She has worked with many emi­nent con­duc­tors includ­ing Sir Andrew Davis, Yuri Temirkanov, Richard Hick­cox, Emmanuel Kriv­ine, Hein­rich Schiff and Yan Pas­cal Torte­lier. Abroad, Priya has worked with many orches­tras includ­ing the Bel­gian Radio and Tele­vi­sion Phil­har­mon­ic, Sin­fo­nia Varso­via, the Pol­ish Cham­ber Orches­tra, Pol­ish Radio Sym­pho­ny Orches­tra, the Aus­tralian Cham­ber Orches­tra, the Moscow Phil­har­mon­ic Orches­tra, and the Deutsche Sin­fonie-Orch­ester. As a recital­ist and cham­ber musi­cian she has per­formed exten­sive­ly at inter­na­tion­al music fes­ti­vals includ­ing Schleswig-Hol­stein, Schu­ber­ti­ade Schwarzen­berg, Kuh­mo, Lock­en­haus, Risør, Heim­bach, Ravinia, Lugano, Chel­tenham, Bath, Sta­vanger and Trondheim.

This year sees the 20th anniver­sary of Priya’s high­ly acclaimed Oxford Cham­ber Music Fes­ti­val with the Lat­vian com­pos­er Peteris Vasks in res­i­dence. Her artis­tic direc­tor­ship of this unusu­al and much acclaimed fes­ti­val inspired The Dai­ly Tele­graph to call it ‚a musi­cal miracle.‘

In the cur­rent sea­son Priya per­forms Mendelssohn Vio­lin Con­cer­to D minor in Stock­holm, Philip Glass vio­lin con­cer­to also in Stock­holm, Schu­mann Con­cer­to in Düs­sel­dorf, Mozart Con­cer­tos in Munich and Piazzolla’s Four sea­sons in Meck­len­burg Vor­pom­mern fes­ti­val. She will also return to the Kuh­mo Cham­ber Music Fes­ti­val and many others.

‘PRIYA MITCHELL IS ONE OF THE FORE­MOST VIO­LIN­ISTS OF HER GEN­ER­A­TION. THIS IS NOT SO MUCH BECAUSE OF HER IMPRES­SIVE ARRAY OF TECH­NI­CAL SKILLS, OR EVEN HER UNFAIL­ING ABIL­I­TY TO FIND THE APPRO­PRI­ATE STYLE FOR EACH WORK. RATHER, IT’S THE INTENSE HIGH-PRO­FILE CHAR­AC­TER­I­SA­TION SHE GIVES TO EACH PHRASE SHE PLAYS, COM­BINED WITH QUAL­I­TIES OF COLOUR AND VIVID­NESS, EXCITE­MENT AND PAS­SION WHICH MAKES HER PLAY­ING SO MEMORABLE.’

THE STRAD