Sara Deborah Timossi
She was a founder member of the Chiaroscuro String Quartet and Ensemble Amaranthos and is now the lead violinist of the London Obbligato Collective and La Girometta. She directs the string orchestra SouthDowns Camerata from the violin and is the Artistic Director of the Spirit of Music Festival in Hampshire.
Sara regularly works with early music groups like the English Concert, Florilegium, Dunedin Consort, London Early Opera, OAE and La Serenissima at venues and festivals across Europe, including the BBC Proms and Rheingau Festival. With her chamber groups she has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, York and Brighton Early Music Festivals and European chamber festivals and has broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Her credits as a soloist and recitalist include the Lufthansa Festival, Wiener Konzerthaus and Cadogan Hall, and broadcasts on Bayrischer Rundfunk and Classic Radio FM. She featured as a soloist on La Serenissima’s CD Gods, Emperors and Angels and has recently recorded London Obbligato Collective’s first album of harpsichord trios by Valentino Nicolai.
Sara has performed Bach, Bonporti, Tartini and Vivaldi concerti as well as Beethoven, Bruch, Brahms, Khachaturian, Mendelssohn and Mozart with orchestras in the UK, Germany and Italy. A former scholar and prize winner at the Guildhall School of Music and Royal College of Music and junior fellow at the RCM, she honed her teaching skills as an assistant violin teacher at the Yehudi Menuhin School. She teaches across the Hampshire and West Sussex areas as well as running a community-based education programme for young string players within the Spirit of Music Festival.
Biography
German-born violinist Sara Deborah Timossi enjoys a wide-ranging performing career from chamber music to orchestra, solo and recital appearances. Equally at home on historical and modern instruments, Sara Deborah was the winner of the jury and audience prize at the International Baroque Violin Competition Premio Bonporti 2017 and received a Making Music Young Artist Award in 2008.
She was a founder member of the Chiaroscuro String Quartet and Ensemble Amaranthos and is now the lead violinist of the London Obbligato Collective and La Girometta. She directs the string orchestra SouthDowns Camerata from the violin and is the Artistic Director of the Spirit of Music Festival in Hampshire.
Sara regularly works with early music groups like the English Concert, Florilegium, Dunedin Consort, London Early Opera, OAE and La Serenissima at venues and festivals across Europe, including the BBC Proms and Rheingau Festival. With her chamber groups she has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, York and Brighton Early Music Festivals and European chamber festivals and has broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Her credits as a soloist and recitalist include the Lufthansa Festival, Wiener Konzerthaus and Cadogan Hall, and broadcasts on Bayrischer Rundfunk and Classic Radio FM. She featured as a soloist on La Serenissima’s CD Gods, Emperors and Angels and has recently recorded London Obbligato Collective’s first album of harpsichord trios by Valentino Nicolai.
Sara has performed Bach, Bonporti, Tartini and Vivaldi concerti as well as Beethoven, Bruch, Brahms, Khachaturian, Mendelssohn and Mozart with orchestras in the UK, Germany and Italy. A former scholar and prize winner at the Guildhall School of Music and Royal College of Music and junior fellow at the RCM, she honed her teaching skills as an assistant violin teacher at the Yehudi Menuhin School. She teaches across the Hampshire and West Sussex areas as well as running a community-based education programme for young string players within the Spirit of Music Festival.
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