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Hattie Quick
European Orchestra Academy members viola
British violist, Hattie Quick, began the viola aged 9 and shortly after began her musical studies at The Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she held Junior Guildhall’s Viola Scholarship. After a successful audition at the age of 16, Hattie joined the Yehudi Menuhin School, studying under Boris Kucharsky and Elliott Perks. In 2020, Hattie began her undergraduate degree as a Linbury Scholar at The Royal College of Music in London, where she graduated in 2024 with a First-Class Honours. In October, Hattie will begin her master’s at Universität der Künste Berlin under the tutelage of Joaquin Riquelme.
As a soloist, Hattie was selected to perform at The Wigmore Hall in 2023 as part of the RCM String Showcase. She returned the following year to perform Joseph Jongen’s chamber work.
Also an avid chamber musician, Hattie has performed across the UK and Europe and received public masterclasses from Maxim Rysanov, Isabel Villanueva, Ralph de Souza, Robert Levin, Eckart Runge (Artemis Quartet), Johannes Meissl (Artis Quartet), and Quartetto di Cremona at the Stauffer Academy Cremona. In 2023, she performed at the ANAM Quartethaus in Melbourne in collaboration with the Australian National Academy of Music.
Hattie also has an extensive orchestral repertoire. She has performed in major venues throughout the UK and Europe, including The Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms, The Gstaad Menuhin Festival, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Barbican Centre and Konzerthaus Berlin. She has worked with renowned conductors, including John Wilson, Ilan Volkov, Sir Mark Elder, Kristjan Järvi and Edward Gardner. As a member of The National Youth Orchestra, aged fourteen, Hattie recorded Holst’s The Planets and Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra for Chandos Records. This year, Hattie was selected to join the prestigious London Symphony Orchestra String Scheme, in which she performed multiple times with the orchestra and received mentorship from its members.