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A popular soloist for many conductors, Richard Egarr has taken him to Residentie Orkest, Roberto Abbado to the Orchestra Filarmonica di Bologna, Mark Wigglesworth to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and Anthony Hermus to the Ulster Orchestra. In addition, he continues his close relationship with Sir Simon Rattle for Berlioz’s Harold in Italy on gut strings with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for concerts in London and Dublin.
Ridout continues to present both solo and ensemble programmes across major venues and festivals, recently appearing at Verbier, Lanaudière, Salzburg, Rosendal, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Ryedale festival where he was Artist in Residence. His regular quartet partners are Benjamin Grosvenor, Hyeyoon Park and Kian Soltani, while other chamber partners include Janine Jansen, Frank Dupree, Isabelle Faust, Vilde Frang, Pablo Ferrández, Denis Kozhukhin and Klaus Mäkelä.
In 2025, he won the Opus Klassik award in the ‘Young Instrumentalist of the Year’ category for his first solo viola album featuring works by Telemann, Bach, Britten and Shaw, and in 2024 he released an album which paid tribute to the great violist Lionel Tertis. Ridout’s recording of Elgar’s Cello Concerto (in the arrangement for viola by Lionel Tertis) won a Gramophone Award in 2023.
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and Kronberg Academy, Ridout has earned accolades such as First Prize at both the Lionel Tertis and Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competitions. As well as being a former BBC New Generation Artist, he is also a recipient of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society 2023 Award for Young Artist. He was the inaugural recipient of Hamburger Symphoniker’s Sir Jeffrey Tate Prize and took part in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program.
Timothy Ridout performs on a 1565/75 viola by Peregrino di Zanetto, generously on loan from a patron of the Beare’s International Violin Society.
