"Jane Gordon brings not only a ravishing tone and depth of timbre but a real sense of musical line to everything she plays." The Independent 2004

"Jane Gordon soars with glowing conviction" The Financial Times 2004

Jane, a prize-winning scholar at the Royal College of Music, completed her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with the Marjorie Hayward Prize, the Beare Violin Prize and the prestigious DipRAM award.

She was the winner of the First Prize in the Anglo-Czechoslovak International Competition (2004), string finalist and prize winner of the Royal Over-Seas League Competition (2004), winner of the English Speaking Union IMS Prussia Cove Scholarship (2005), and was selected for the Park Lane Young Artist Platform (2004). She is also recipient of scholarships from the Musicians Benevolent Fund, Myra Hess Trust and Philharmonia MMSF.

Jane is an accomplished soloist and committed chamber musician. Her Purcell Room debut in 2004 received great critical acclaim, and she has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Martinu Hall in Prague, Edinburgh Festival (ROSL) and the Stradivarius Festival in Cremona. She has performed concertos by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Mozart and Vaughan Williams with various orchestras throughout the UK. Together with the Rautio Piano Trio, Jane was recipient of the Tillett Trust YA Platform Award, Maisie Lewis Award, and was appointed Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellow by the Royal Academy of Music (2005-2007). They have performed live on BBC Radio 3, at numerous festivals throughout the UK and will be returning to the Wigmore Hall in April 2008. Jane also regularly attends the Open Chamber Music festival at IMS Prussia Cove.

Jane plays a Guadagnini Violin, kindly loaned by the Royal Academy of Music.

This will be Jane's second appearance with NSO. She was one of three inspired young soloists in a performance of the Beethoven Triple Concerto given in our July concert.