For over thirty years, Ian Jewel was the violist of the Gabrieli Quartet with whom he toured the world from New York’s Lincoln Centre and Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House… Read More about “Our Patron”…

Sally Beamish was born in London. She studied violin and viola at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, with Bronislaw Gimpel, Patrick Ireland and Atar Arad, before studying in Detmold with Bruno Giuranna. Read More about “Honorary President”…

Louise Lansdown was appointed Head of Strings at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2012, after holding the position of Senior Lecturer in the School of Strings at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester Read More about “President”…

Martin Outram studied at Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music. He is a member of the internationally renowned Maggini Quartet and also appears regularly as a soloist. Read More about “Vice-President”…

Sue Douglas started to learn the violin at the age of eight, which has set the scene for a life time hobby, Read More about “Secretary”…

Paul is a qualified Chartered Accountant with a career record first in company financial management and later as an equity analyst in investment banking. Read More about “Treasurer”…

Tim Walton, from the age of 8, was a choirboy at St Anne’s Moseley, before transferring, in 1959, to St Martin’s in the Bullring where he sang for 10 years (last 5 as a Baritone). Read More about “Executive Secretary (Membership)”…

Yupeng Cai is a viola player from Chongqing, China. He is currently studying for a masters at the Royal Northern College of Music Read More about “BVS Conservatoire Coordinator”…

Peter Whitehead is an undergraduate student at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and studies the viola with Lucy Nolan. He started to take up the viola in 2013, when he was 16, while still playing the violin. Read More about “Executive Secretary (Facebook)”…

Janet Pazio’s interest in music began at junior school where she learnt the recorder and tormented the family with her various tootings. Just before starting grammar school… Read More about “Executive Secretary (Groups and orchestras)”…

Vanessa Gaidoni grew up in Herefordshire and started to play the violin at the age of eight. At thirteen she took up the viola and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Junior Department. Read More about “BVSYoung Violists Coordinator”…

Michael Freyhan studied piano with Denis Matthews and violin with Manoug Parikian, while acquiring a music degree at Cambridge. Read More about “Treasurer Emeritus”…