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Victoria Sayles
violin

Victoria is an associate leader of the London Mozart Players and section leader at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. She divides her time between the UK and Sweden but is also a busy chamber musician in Australia, Europe and the UK. As a chamber musician, she has performed with Gary Hoffman, Lars Anders Tomter, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Steven Isserlis, Richard Tognetti, Jaime Martina and Gerard Causse. She was a scholar at the Royal College of Music and graduated a year early, having gained a job as concertmaster at Santiago Opera House in Chile aged just twenty-one. She has been concertmaster of the BBC Scottish, Bergen Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber, Swedish Radio and Trondheim Symphony Orchestras. She is a passionate educationalist and was Director of Music at Hazlegrove School from 2016 to 2019. She writes for BBC Music Magazine, The Strad and The Arts Desk, and plays a Rogeri violin on loan from the Royal Swedish Opera.