Adam Walker

At the forefront of a new generation of wind soloists, Adam Walker is a leading ambassador for the flute with a ferocious appetite for repertoire and a curious and creative approach to programming. He has given world premieres of concertos by composers including Brett Dean, Kevin Puts and Huw Watkins as well as championing works by Kaija Saariaho, John Corigliano and Mieczysław Weinberg.

As a soloist Adam regularly performs with the major UK orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Sinfonia of London. Further afield he has performed with the Baltimore, Seattle, Malmö and Luxembourg Symphony Orchestras, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestras of Mexico and India, the Seoul, Malaysian, Tampere and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestras, Auckland Philharmonia, Vienna Chamber Orchestra and Les Solistes Européens.

A committed chamber musician with an open and collaborative style, Adam has in recent seasons made appearances at the BBC Chamber Proms, Wigmore Hall, LSO St Luke’s, De Singel Antwerp, Musée du Louvre, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Frankfurt Alte

Oper and the Utrecht, West Cork, Delft and Moritzburg Chamber Music Festivals. Recent collaborators include Tabea Zimmermann, Cédric Tiberghien, Angela Hewitt, Mahan Esfahani, Ailish Tynan, James Baillieu and Sean Shibe. Adam is an alumnus of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program and in 2018 he founded the Orsino Ensemble, an ensemble with a mission to showcase the depth and versatility of the wind chamber repertoire.

Adam’s solo discography includes French Works for Flute (Chandos), Vocalise (Opus Arte), Kevin Puts’ Flute Concerto with Marin Alsop and the Peabody Institute (Naxos) and the Huw Watkins Concerto with the Hallé Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth (NMC). He also appears with the Orsino Ensemble on the Chandos disc Belle Époque.

Adam studied at Chetham’s School of Music with Gitte Sorensen and at the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Cox, graduating with distinction in 2009. He was appointed Principal Flute of the London Symphony Orchestra at the age of just 21, a position he held until 2020. His many awards include the Outstanding Young Artist award at the MIDEM Classical Awards as well as a Borletti–Buitoni Trust Fellowship. He was appointed professor at the Royal College of Music in 2017 and at the Bern Academy of the Arts in 2022.

A BBC New Generation Artist and Borletti–Buitoni Trust Fellow, Timothy Ridout is one of the most sought-after violists of his generation. In recent months he has appeared with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Symphony San José and Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, given recitals and chamber concerts at the Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Philharmonie Köln, as well as a concert series in Taipei, and toured South America with the Chamber Society of the Lincoln Center.

Timothy has performed with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Hamburg Symphonic Orchestra, Paris and Lausanne Chamber Orchestras, Orchestre National de Lille, Camerata Salzburg, Graz Philharmonic, Hallé Orchestra, BBC Symphony and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras and the Philharmonia Orchestra. He has performed the Walton Viola Concerto at the BBC Proms with Sakari Oramo, and with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under David Zinman. He has also worked with conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Lionel Bringuier, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Sylvain Cambreling, Nicholas Collon and Sir András Schiff.

As a chamber musician, Timothy has taken part in numerous festivals across Europe, including Rheingau, Bergen, Rosendal,