Anna Kosińska is Assistant Concertmaster of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra.

Since her solo debut in New York’s renowned Carnegie Hall, she has performed regularly in the world’s most prestigious venues, including Vienna Musikverein, Tonhalle Zürich, The Charles Bronfman Auditorium Tel Aviv, Cadogan Hall London, Berlin Philharmonic, Lincoln Centre New York and Warsaw Philharmonic.

She is a major prize winner of many international violin competitions, including The International Violin Competition Carnegie Hall, New York, The International Violin Competition in Lugano, Switzerland. She was also awarded multiple scholarships, including Sholarship of the President of the Republic of Poland, Sholarship at the Music Institute and Society in Warsaw, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Poland, Music and Art Govermental award of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Anna Kosińska recorded for Naxos, Decca, ARD, ZDF, Medici and Polish Television TVP.

Anna is a member of The Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Guest Co-Leader of the Malta Philharmonic and Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, guest violinist in Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin and Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin.

In the words of celebrated violinist Anne-Sophie-Mutter, “The world needs well-rounded, broad-minded musicians. Give back to society whenever you can.”  Miranda’s wide-ranging career epitomises this, spanning an international diary of orchestral concerts and historically informed performance (including Instruments of Time & Truth, Ex Cathedra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, live BBC radio broadcasts). She has spent many seasons in the theatre (RSC) and opera (Glyndebourne, London Coliseum) and as a Wagner specialist with Longborough Festival Opera. Her discography includes recordings with OPO, Yorkshire Baroque Soloists and Hanover Band. Her award-winning work as a project-leader for OPO’s Outreach team has brought music to around 1000 children so far, and she is extremely grateful for the generosity of OPO sponsors who fund this valuable work in Oxfordshire hospitals and schools. She is Head of Strings at St Helen and St Katharine, ranked Oxfordshire’s top independent girls’ school (The Times, Parent Power).  Miranda enjoys a longstanding commitment of over 20 years to OPO.

Ruth Rogers studied with Itzhak Rashkovsky and Herman Krebbers. Described as ‘the finest of the younger generation of violinists’ (Musical Opinion) and hailed by the Guardian as ‘superb’, Ruth is in demand as soloist, leader, and chamber musician. She was awarded the Tagore Gold Medal – the Royal College of Music’s highest accolade. She appears regularly at such prestigious venues as The Wigmore Hall with Aquinas Piano Trio and has made many recordings as part of that ensemble, including recent releases by Naxos which have been very well received by the critics.

Ruth was appointed as Leader of the London Mozart Players in 2015, Leader of the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra in 2022 and Co-Concertmaster of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra in 2024. She worked as Co-Leader of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from 2008 until 2012 and appears as a guest leader of many other major orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, Hallé, BBC Philharmonic, the CBSO and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Ruth regularly leads the orchestra of Gran Canaria and has performed as a soloist in many different countries.

Ruth has performed at some of the greatest concert halls in the world including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Musikverein in Vienna. She has also played to orphans, landmine victims and malaria patients in refugee camps on the Thailand-Burma border.

Ruth is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Shaftesbury Chamber Music Series, the Artistic Adviser for the Sherborne Abbey Festival, and a Trustee of the newly launched music charity ‘Tree of Strings’ which is bringing music to schools all over Dorset.

Matthew Denton has performed for over three decades as leader of the internationally acclaimed Carducci Quartet, one of the UK’s leading chamber ensembles.

As a chamber musician, he has won prizes at major international competitions including the Concert Artists Guild Competition, Kuhmo Chamber Music Competition, Charles Hennen Competition, Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition.

With the Carducci Quartet, Matthew has recorded more than 25 albums for Signum Records, Naxos, BMG, Somm Recordings, Nimbus Records and the quartet’s own label. The ensemble performs around 90 concerts each year at leading venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw and Tivoli Concert Hall.

Renowned for its complete cycles of Bartók, Beethoven and Shostakovich, the quartet received a Royal Philharmonic Society Award for its landmark Shostakovich15 project—ten complete cycles presented worldwide, culminating in an immersive single-day performance at Shakespeare’s Globe.

As a soloist, Matthew has performed concertos by Bach, Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, Delius, Beethoven, Bruch and Brahms, and is currently Professor of Violin at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

He is also in demand as a guest leader, appearing with ensembles including the Wigmore Soloists, Britten Sinfonia, Orchestra of the Swan and Ensemble 360, and serves as Co-Concertmaster of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra.

A prolific recording artist and session musician, Matthew has contributed to hundreds of film and television soundtracks and has appeared on albums by Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding and Jethro Tull.

Matthew studied with Felix Andrievsky at the Royal College of Music before holding Junior Fellowships in chamber music, working with members of the Amadeus, Alberni and Chilingirian Quartets. He continued his studies in Paris with ProQuartet, working with the Alban Berg Quartet, Walter Levin, Paul Katz and György Kurtág.

A disciple of the legendary Soviet violinist Boris Goldstein, Adrian Adlam is a violinist of great versatility who combines careers of performing, conducting and teaching with equal passion. He has appeared as a guest concertmaster with leading European orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Hague Philharmonic, the Southwest German Radio Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and the Scottish BBC Symphony Orchestra, working with many of the most eminent conductors of our time. He has broadcast for both radio and television, while his CD recordings have included major chamber music works by Spohr, Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky. His recording of the complete violin sonatas by Carl Nielsen received a supersonic award, and his recording of the Schubert octet was voted surround sound audio DVD of the year in Germany. His live broadcasts of the Bartók Solo Sonata and Berg violin concerto on Deutschland Radio Berlin were received enthusiastically and described as a mature ‘combination of technical expertise with musical integrity’. Following a recital at the Wigmore Hall, Adlam’s playing was described in the Strad magazine as ‘florid, lyrical and majestic’. As Artistic director of the International Freden Music Festival in Germany he has been responsible for the commissioning of over thirty new works for chamber ensemble and orchestra from a wide pool of internationally established composers. The festival was recently awarded the German Praetorius award in recognition of its outstanding contribution to the arts.

Nemanja Ljubinković began his musical studies at the age of 6 in Belgrade with Dejan Mihailović, giving his first recital aged 10. He was the prize-winner at the International Yamaha Competition, Città di Genova Violin Awards and the Jeunesse Musicale Competition. He studied in Munich at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater with Anna Chumachenko, and he regularly worked with Zakhar Bron, Ida Haendel, and Igor Ozim.  As a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician he has performed with the Bayerishe Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, Bayerische Staatsoper, München Kammerorchester and Bayreuth Festipielhaus among many others. He is also a member of the award-winning chamber ensemble Double Sens in Paris, with whom he has recorded four albums exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon.

Anna Croad is Sub-Principal Violin of the Oxford Philharmonic and enjoys a varied freelance career which encompasses playing in many major London orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, BBC Concert Orchestra and Guy Barker’s Big Band. In lockdown Classic FM chose to share Anna’s solo violin premiere of sister Libby Croad’s unaccompanied solo violin composition, ‘Essence’ which went on to receive over 25k views. Anna enjoys performing a wide range of musical styles and has been privileged to perform and be engaged to record and tour with artists including the late Luciano Pavarotti, Yo-Yo Ma, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Adele, Hugh Jackman, Simply Red, Emeli Sande, Gregory Porter and Lana del Rey. Anna co-founded her highly successful contemporary string ensemble, ‘Blue Topaz Strings’ which perform for private events and have entertained well-known figures including Her Majesty the Queen, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Jamie Oliver at venues including Wembley Stadium, Ronnie Scott’s, Kensington Palace and The National Theatre.

Emanuela Buta is Sub-Principal First Violin of the Oxford Philharmonic. Born in Romania, Emanuela studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music under Maurice Hasson and Philippe Graffin, and won the Doris Faulkener Solo Violin Award and the honorary Diploma of RAM. At 7, Emanuela performed solo with the Arad Philharmonic Orchestra in Romania, and won the National Romanian Solo competitions between 1999-2001. She has made television appearances with the Myrios Quartet, and has toured Europe, Middle East and Far East both as a soloist and chamber musician as part of Femusa ensemble and on several occasions has lead Sinfonia Cymru. In 2005, Emanuela won the National Youth String Quartet Competition as a member of the Azzura String Quartet. As part of the Myrios Quartet, she has performed at festivals including the Soviet Chamber, Slav, Windsor, Swaledale and Norfolk & Norwich. She was invited by the conductor Gianandrea Noseda to play in his Settimane Musicale orchestra in Stresa, Italy in 2006 and 2008. Emanuela coaches chamber music at Junior Guildhall and Pro Corda and enjoys a busy freelance career internationally and in London working with the Philharmonia, BBC Concert and Royal Philharmonic orchestras.

Tereza Privratska graduated from Prague Conservatory under the tutelage of Jindrich Pazdera, before moving to London to study with Maurice Hasson and Jack Liebeck at Royal Academy of Music, completing a BMus and a MMus. A sought-after solo, chamber and orchestral performer, Tereza is a prize winner of several international violin competitions, including the Kocian International Competition (Czech Republic), and The Talents for Europe (Slovakia). At 13, she performed Vivaldi’s Double violin concerto with legendary Josef Suk in Prague’s Rudolfinum. Other appearances include the Prague Spring International Festival, and solo recitals in Europe and North America. She is the founder and 1^st violin of the award-winning Jubilee Quartet, who performs regularly in venues and festivals internationally; with London appearances at Wigmore Hall, Conway Hall and Purcell Room. Tereza is a devoted violin and chamber music teacher and is currently undertaking a PhD in string quartet pedagogy. She teaches string quartets at the Purcell School Chamber Academy and is an Assistant Violin Teacher at The Yehudi Menuhin School.

Imogen started playing the violin at the age of 6 and won an exhibition to the RCM Junior Department aged 11. On entering the RCM full time, she studied with John Ludlow and latterly, Rodney Friend and Hugh Bean. During her time at the RCM, she led three of the four College orchestras, and secured a job in the BBC Symphony Orchestra during her 4th year of study. Upon leaving the RCM, she was awarded the Tagore Gold medal for the most outstanding student of the year. Four years later in she became the youngest member of the Philharmonia, where she played for 30 years in venues across the globe and with many of the world’s finest conductors and soloists. Since leaving in 2017, Imogen has pursued a very busy freelance career orchestrally mainly in London, but also playing in guest principal positions in Birmingham, Cardiff, Bournemouth, Newcastle, and Liverpool. She joined the Oxford Philharmonic after being offered a Principal First Violin position in 2018.

*The participation of Imogen East is supported by Maggie Copus.