Programme to include:Ravel Sonata
Debussy Sonata
Ravel’s Tzigane
Iona Brown
Iona won a scholarship to study at the Royal Northern College of Music under Christopher Rowland, Lydia Mordkovitch and Wen Zhou Li where she won several performance awards.
Druing this time she helped found Psappha and was also a member of Manchester Camerata.
Iona joined Northern Sinfonia in 1995 where she is now a principal first violin. She now performs regularly with the Da Vinci String Quartet and has appeared alongside many eminent musicians most notably Bruno Pasquier, Jean-Bernard Pommier and Maurice Bourgue. She has also performed chamber music with Lars Vogt. Iona has also performed with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Hallé Orchestra.
As a soloist Iona has recently performedthe Barber Violin Concerto and the Lark Ascending with Orchestra North-East, the Bruch Violin Concerto with the Charnwood Orchestra and has performed the Mendelssohn with the Cobweb, Tynedale and New Tyneside orchestra.
Iona is a principal tutor at the Centre for Advanced Training at Sage Gateshead, teaches for Durham University and has recently been appointed Head of Strings at Newcastle University.
