Toby Cook performs internationally as a chamber musician and soloist, recently including at Kings Place London, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Philharmonie Berlin. He is a Hattori Foundation 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.
Toby currently studies with Lawrence Power at the Zurich University of Arts. He studied his Masters degree with Tabea Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, and Bachelors 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 as a young boy. Alongside his studies he has had the pleasure to receive masterclasses from artists including Ettore Causa, Pekka Kuusisto and Nobuko Imai. 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 is a founding member of Ensemble Textura, a Berlin-based experimental string ensemble who aim to bring a fresh perspective to well-known chamber music works, as well as explore unknown repertoire and folk music. He plays regularly with the Seida and 12 ensembles, and has performed alongside musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and clarinettist Matthew Hunt at HellensMusic festival, Tabea Zimmermann at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Gary Hoffman and Antje Weithaas at Kronberg Academy’s ‘Chamber Music Connects the World’, 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 also regularly participates in the Open Chamber Music Seminar at Prussia Cove in Cornwall.
Toby is also very 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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