Lunchtime Recital - Rosa Hartley (violin) and Arisa Onoda (piano)

Presented by the Royal Academy of Music

British violinist Rosa Hartley graduated in 2017 with a First Class Honours degree from the Royal College of Music and is now studying for her masters degree at the Royal Academy of Music with György Pauk. She has given performances as a solo and chamber musician throughout Europe at venues such as Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, V&A Museum, 1901 Arts Club, Southbank Centre and Steinway Hall. Recent concerto performances include Brahms, Elgar, Mendelssohn and she recently performed Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins at Tokyo Stradivarius Festival at Suntory Hall on the “Walter” Stradivarius of 1699. She was recently awarded the Hattori Foundation Senior Award. During 2016-2017 Rosa performed with the London Symphony Orchestra as part of its String Experience Scheme. In 2018 Rosa toured Europe and the Middle East with the European Union Youth Orchestra as assistant concertmaster, leading the orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony at St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna and in addition performed Max Richter's Four Seasons 'Recomposed' as soloist with the orchestra. She has recently been selected by conductor Ivan Fischer for the 2018-2019 Budapest Festival Orchestra Apprentice Scheme. A recipient of the Harrison Gowland Bequest Award and the Derek Butler Award, Rosa is also very grateful to the Countess of Munster, Help Musicians UK, Stephen Bell Charitable Trust, St Marylebone Trust and the Kathleen Trust for supporting her studies. Rosa plays on a 1717 Dalla Costa violin, kindly on loan from Royal Academy of Music.