Toby Cook performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, recently including at Kings Place London, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Philharmonie Berlin. He is a Tillett Trust and Villa Musica artist, winner of the Małopolska competition, the Barbirolli Prize at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and the Len Lickorish Memorial Prize at the Royal Overseas League International Strings Competition, and is a Hattori Foundation award winner.
Based in Berlin, London and Zurich, Toby currently studies with Lawrence Power at the Zurich University of Arts. He completed his masters degree with Tabea Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, and Bachelor degree with Juan-Miguel Hernandez and Garfield Jackson at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he began in the Primary and Junior Royal Academy departments with Jacky Woods and Clare Thompson. Alongside his studies he has received masterclasses from artists including Ettore Causa, Pekka Kuusisto and Nobuko Imai and participated in the Seiji Ozawa and Gstaad Menuhin String Academies amongst others. Over the years he has also enjoyed collaborating with composers including Garth Knox, Vasilis Alevizos and Thomas Jones on their new works, with performances in London and at the Agora Music Festival in Luxembourg.
An avid chamber musician, Toby has performed with the Seida and 12 ensembles, musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and clarinettist Matthew Hunt at HellensMusic festival, with Tabea Zimmermann at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Gary Hoffman and Antje Weithaas at Kronberg Academy’s ‘Chamber Music Connects the World’, with Claudio Martínez Mehner and Christoph Poppen in Santander, and with members of the ARC ensemble at the Music of Exile Festival in Toronto, Canada. He is part of the Festivalcampus-ensemble at Heidelberger Frühling Festival, designing and performing in a number of events and participated in Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove last Autumn, performing in local venues in Cornwall.
Toby is passionate about teaching and is a member of the European String Teachers’ Association, with whom he performed at conferences at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, and in Valletta, Europe’s cultural capital in 2018.
Based in Berlin, London and Zurich, Toby currently studies with Lawrence Power at the Zurich University of Arts. He completed his masters degree with Tabea Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, and Bachelor degree with Juan-Miguel Hernandez and Garfield Jackson at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he began in the Primary and Junior Royal Academy departments with Jacky Woods and Clare Thompson. Alongside his studies he has received masterclasses from artists including Ettore Causa, Pekka Kuusisto and Nobuko Imai and participated in the Seiji Ozawa and Gstaad Menuhin String Academies amongst others. Over the years he has also enjoyed collaborating with composers including Garth Knox, Vasilis Alevizos and Thomas Jones on their new works, with performances in London and at the Agora Music Festival in Luxembourg.
An avid chamber musician, Toby has performed with the Seida and 12 ensembles, musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and clarinettist Matthew Hunt at HellensMusic festival, with Tabea Zimmermann at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Gary Hoffman and Antje Weithaas at Kronberg Academy’s ‘Chamber Music Connects the World’, with Claudio Martínez Mehner and Christoph Poppen in Santander, and with members of the ARC ensemble at the Music of Exile Festival in Toronto, Canada. He is part of the Festivalcampus-ensemble at Heidelberger Frühling Festival, designing and performing in a number of events and participated in Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove last Autumn, performing in local venues in Cornwall.
Toby is passionate about teaching and is a member of the European String Teachers’ Association, with whom he performed at conferences at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, and in Valletta, Europe’s cultural capital in 2018.
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