Mathilde Milwidsky

Mathilde Milwidsky is a British violinist, born in London in 1994. She began lessons at six with Ilya Ushakov, studied with Viktoria Grigoreva and David Takeno as a Tsukanov Scholar in the Royal College of Music Junior Department, then with György Pauk at the Royal Academy of Music, and took Masters and Konzertexam degrees with Mi-kyung Lee in Munich.

She won first prize at the Aurora Music Competition in Sweden in 2018, and was the only British violinist selected for the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition. Her first recording, the premiere of Agnes Zimmermann’s three violin sonatas with Sam Haywood, appeared on Toccata Classics in 2020. She has taught at the Royal College of Music since September 2024.

She recorded Beethoven’s Romances for violin and orchestra with the National Symphony Orchestra for Guild in 2020, and has played Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto with the orchestra under Rimma Sushanskaya. She calls the November 2026 date at Cadogan Hall her concerto debut in that hall.