British violinist Priya Mitchell, described by The Strad as ‘One of the foremost violinists of her generation’, studied with David Takeno at the Yehudi Menuhin School and with Zachar Bron in Germany. She was chosen as the British representative of the ‘Rising Star’ concert series by the European Concert Halls Organisation giving recitals in many of the great concert halls from Carnegie to the Wigmore. As a soloist, Priya has directed and performed with the Moscow Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Belgian Radio Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia and the Polish National Radio Orchestra, amongst many others.
Priya is also a sought-after guest at international chamber festivals all over the world and was asked last year to serve as Artistic Director of ‘Caravan – Gypsy Folk’: a festival she curated at Kings Place in London, which following her own Indian and Irish roots through the extraordinary musical journey of the Roma, from Rajasthan to the British Isles, via the Near East, Spain and the Balkans, across the centuries. She is the founder and Artistic Director of the Oxford Chamber Music Festival, described by The Daily Telegraph as ‘a musical miracle’ and by The Independent as putting Oxford "on the map of the classical music world."