Nicola Loud
Violin
Nicola Loud is one of the brightest young musical talents to emerge from Britain during recent years. She is attracting engagements with major orchestras both in this country and abroad. During the 2000/01 season her bookings have included concerto appearances with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra in this country and with the Presidential Symphony Orchestra in Turkey. In addition she has toured Germany with the Het Symfonieorkest van Vlaanderen playing ten performances of Brahms' Violin Concerto. She toured the USA with the BBC Concert Orchestra as part of the orchestra's 50th Anniversary Celebrations. Nicola Loud became BBC Young Musician of the Year when she was only fifteen. She subsequently undertook a few carefully chosen engagements whilst completing her schooling. A former pupil of Sheila Nelson, she continued with serious preparation and study for her future career by spending four years at the Royal Academy of Music where her principal teacher was György Pauk. She then went to New York for a period of further study with Cho-Liang Lin at the Julliard School of Music. Nicola returned to Britain from New York when she was twenty-four with the foundations firmly in place for what is proving to be a most exciting career.
As well as her concerto appearances in the UK and abroad, including the prestigious Spoleto Festival, Nicola is an accomplished chamber musician. While still a student in London she took part in the prestigious Diamond Chamber Music Series with artists such as Stephen Kovacevich, Lynn Harrell and Dmitry Sitkovetsky.
Nicola's broadcasts on radio and television have included her Wigmore Hall debut which was broadcast live on Radio 3 as part of the BBC Young Artists scheme and a recital from St John's Smith Square which was broadcast to nineteen countries as part of a European Broadcasting Union Day.