British violinist Freya Goldmark (b.1996) enjoys a busy career as a soloist, chamber musician and director.
Beginning violin lessons aged four, by her mid teens Freya had performed as a soloist across the UK, Europe and Asia, making her concerto debut aged 13 at the Rachmaninov Institute, Russia. Since then, she has enjoyed a burgeoning career performing as a soloist at many celebrated UK venues including Cadogan Hall, Elgar Room Albert Hall, St.John’s Waterloo, Mansion House and The Purcell Room. Her 2023/2024 season includes performances of Mendelssohn, Bruch and Beethoven concertos as well as multiple performances of Vaughan Williams Lark Ascending.
Upcoming performances see Freya travelling to Bogotá, New York, Philadelphia, Burghausen, Berlin, Edinburgh and Norway.
In Autumn of 2022 Freya became the new first violinist of the Ligeti Quartet. The quartet have been at the forefront of modern and contemporary music since their formation in 2010, breaking new ground through innovative programming and championing of today’s most exciting composers and artists. 2023 performances included recitals at Southbank Centre, Kings Place, an autumn tour to Canada and multiple performances at Aldeburgh Festival in June featuring fifteen world premieres co commissioned by Britten Pears Arts, BBC Radio 3, Bourgie Hall and the quartet themselves.
As part of the quartet Freya has taught and led performances at Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Chethams School of Music, The Royal Danish Academy and The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto.
Freya enjoys collaborating with many brilliant musicians throughout the UK and further afield. As a chamber musician she has played at Wigmore Hall, Aldeburgh Festival, Cadogan Hall, Kings Place, West Road Concert Hall, The Purcell Room, and Elgar Room, Albert Hall. Freya is regularly invited to perform with some of the UK’s most exciting groups – she tours often with Scottish Ensemble, leads composer Erland Cooper’s ensemble, and was guest principal of Cambridge Philharmonic for their Spring/Summer 2023 season.
Freya is passionate not only about performing music but also bringing it to as many people as possible and she began organising concerts in her early teens. She now regularly directs and brings together groups of other musicians. Freya founded Stamford International Music Festival when she was only 19. This chamber music festival takes place in the town in which she grew up. From 2019-2021 Freya was director of Cambridge Summer Music Festival, the youngest person to take on this role in the Festival’s 45 year history. Her time with CSM included bringing over 120 musicians to Cambridge for 31 concerts in July 2021.
Freya graduated from the Royal College of Music in 2018 where she studied as a Foundation Scholar with Maciej Rakowski, who taught her from the age of ten.
Freya performs on her Camilli of Mantua violin c1740.