The violinist Priya Mitchell studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Vienna Conservatory and with Zachar Bron in Germany. In 1994 the Young Concert Artists Trust in London selected her for representation. She was chosen as the British representative for the European Concert Halls Organization Rising Stars series, and in the 1997/98 season gave recitals in Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Brussels and New York’s Carnegie Hall. Highlights in her career include performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Yuri Temirkanov, Mendelssohn’s Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic at the St Magnus Festival, the Bruch Concerto with the Philharmonia, Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending with Sinfonia Varsova and Yan Pascal Tortelier at Symphony Hall Birmingham and Walton’s Violin Concerto with Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, the Belgian National Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.