“One of the most exceptionally gifted young violinists I have ever encountered” said Ruggiero Ricci about Tamsin Waley-Cohen. Tamsin has performed in London at Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall and in venues across England and Scotland , and in France , Italy , Israel and USA.

As a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music she won their concerto competition, was their String Player of the Year, and numerous other awards including the Ian Stoutzker prize.

She won the Royal Overseas League Strings prize in 2005, an MBF educational award, and was a strings finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year, and a prize winner at the International Violin Competitions in Kloster Schontal (Germany) and Sion (Switzerland).

She is a regular participant at the International Musicians’ Seminar at Prussia Cove; she has participated in masterclasses given by Ruggiero Ricci, Ida Haendel, Igor Ozim, Gyorgy Pauk, Nam Yum Kim, Lorand Fenyves, Gerhard Schultz, Andras Keller, Lewis Kaplan and Vadim Gluzman.  Her RCM Professor is Itzhak Rashkovsky.

In spring 2006 she is performing the Tchaikovsky violin concerto with the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Robert Max; the Prokofiev 1st violin concerto with the Royal College of Music orchestra, conducted by Andrew Litton, and the Bruch violin concerto with the Orchestra of St John’s, conducted by John Lubbock. In early summer she will undertake a UK concert tour with the distinguished Italian pianist Gregorio Nardi, with whom she will also play in Italy; later in 2006 she will give a recital at “the Wigmore Hall of the South West” at Barkham, and open the Two Moors Festival 2006; she has also been invited to play at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany .