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Biography
Jessica Beeston, "a stunning viola player" (Michael Tumelty, The Herald, Feb 2008) is a highly regarded soloist and chamber musician. She received a first class Masters degree from the Mozarteum, Salzburg where she studied viola with Thomas Riebl. Jessica was awarded scholarships to study by the Countess of Munster Trust, the Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarship, the Cross Trust and the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.

Jessica is a guest principal viola of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and regularly plays with Camerata Salzburg. She has also played with the London Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, New London Soloists and Britten Sinfonia. She is a keen chamber musician and performed in the Wigmore Hall with Ensemble Na Mara and has recently become a member of the Nephele Ensemble. She participated in the International Musican's Seminar master classes and the Mendelssohn on Mull chamber music festival.

This year Jessica was a soloist in the ROSL strings competition and in 2006 won the Waddell memorial prize for strings. As a member of Live Music Now with pianist Andrew Jonhston she has performed in venues throughout the country where she has been described as being "a commanding presence in total control of the music" (Butterworth, Paxton, July 2008).

Jessica's solo performances include

• May 2010: recital for Westbourne Music Society
• Feb 2009: Finalist in the strings ROSL competition
• Oct 2008: recital in the Deal festival
• Aug 2008: soloist with the Rose Street Ensemble, Fringe Festival, Edinburgh
• July 2008: recital in the Paxton music festival
• May 2008: recital in the Loch Sheil music festival
• Feb 2008: solo performance of Edward McGuire's Martyr to celebrate his 60th birthday, Glasgow
• Nov 2006-2008 - Live Music Now! recitals in the UK with Andrew Johnston, including tours to Orkney and Yorkshire
• Regular recitals in Edinburgh, London and Salzburg
• July 2003: toured Germany as soloist with te National Youth String Orchestra of Scotland
• March 2002: Concerto soloist with the Scottish Sinfonia

Jessica's chamber music performances include

• Jan 2010: Hebrides Ensemble
• Aug 2009: Arundel Chamber Music Festival
• Jun 2008: Ensemble Na Mara concert in the Wigmore Hall
• Apr 2008: performances with the Badke Quartet
• Feb 2008 & Feb 2005: guest artist with the Edinburgh string quartet
• 2006-2007: Member of the Giraldi Quartet, Salzburg
• Regular participant in the Mendelssohn on Mull chamber music festival, with Levon Chillingrian, Andrew Watkinson, Marcia Crayford, Gaby Lester and Alisdair Tait (1999-2007)
• 2005 - present: regular guest artist with the Edinburgh Quartet
• Sep 2005: Quintet tour to Shanghai and Beijing
• Aug 2003: participant in the Cadenza chamber music festival, England with the Dante Quartet

Orchestral Work
Orchestras: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Brandenburg Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia, City of London Sinfonia, English Chamber Orchestra, English Classical Players, Festival Symphony Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, London Classical Players, London Mozart Players, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble, Trafalgar Sinfonia. Sessions: Cool Music Ltd.

Jessica's orchestral work also includes Scottish Chamber Orchestra (guest principal viola), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (sitting No.2), Camerata Salzburg (principal viola & tutti viola), Salzburg Chamber Soloists, Orchestra of Scottish Ballet, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Camerata Scotland (leader).

Education
Jessica's schooling took place at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Bachelor of Music Performance (2004) Jessica's graduate studies took place at Salzburg Mozarteum, Masters in Viola Performance under Thomas Riebl (2007)

Prizes and Awards

• 2006 - 2007: The Countess of Munster Trust
• 2005 - 2007: The Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarship
• 2005 - 2008: The Waddell Memorial Prize for strings
• 2006: The Martin Musical Scholarship
• 2006: The Cross Trust
• 1996-2000: held a scholarship at the RSAMD Junior Academy

Teachers: Thomas Riebl, David Takeno, Krysia Osostowicz.

Jessica joined Morgensterns in October 2008

Jessica's web profile was last updated 6th Mar 2010