Zoë Beyers (violin) was born in Stellenbosch, South Africa, and began violin lessons at the age of six with Noel Travers. Since her debut aged eleven with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under Paavo Järvi, she has performed throughout South Africa and the UK with many distinguished conductors, including Vladimir Verbitsky, Bernard Gueller and Saulius Sondeckis. In 2002, Zoë performed with the St Petersburg Philharmonic in the opening concert of the St Petersburg Musical Olympus Festival. In this prestigious concert, she received critical acclaim for the première performance of Qilaatersorneq, by the Queen Elisabeth Award-winning composer Søren Nils Eichberg, as well as Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole.  
 
Zoë has given recitals in the Linbury Theatre, the Pitville Pump Room in Cheltenham, and, as a member of the Emanuel Ensemble, the Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room. She is the first violinist of the Solaris Quartet, and performs with the Fibonacci Sequence, the Soloists of the London Mozart Players and the Scottish Ensemble. Zoë has recently performed as a soloist with the Oxford Symphony Orchestra, the Hounslow Symphony Orchestra and the Cape Town Concert Orchestra. Zoë gave a solo performance at the ENO Coliseum for the opening of the Cheltenham Music Festival, and recitals in the 2006 Cheltenham Festival as part of the Festival Academy Players. She has recently been appointed Sub-Principal 1st Violin of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
 
Zoë was awarded an Associated Board International Scholarship for her undergraduate degree at the Royal College of Music, and received her BMus with First Class Honours in 2005. She also won the Tagore Gold Medal, and awards from the RCM, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Worshipful Company of Musicians and the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund for her postgraduate studies. Zoë is a Yehudi Menuhin scholar at the RCM, currently working towards an MMus and studying with Gabrielle Lester and Gordan Nikolitch.
Zoë Beyers violin