Biography
Davina performs around the globe with the world’s most highly regarded period ensembles – The English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, The English Concert, Academy of Ancient Music, Dunedin Consort, Arcangelo, The Sixteen and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
She performs regularly at Carnegie Hall and The Lincoln Center (New York), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Philharmonie (Paris), La Scala (Italy), Palau de la Musica (Barcelona), The Royal Opera House, Wigmore Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London.
Her most recent engagements have included the BBC Proms, recording her first solo album Sweet Stillness, and also tours of Europe, the USA and the Far East performing Beethoven, Handel and Berlioz. Last year, Davina was made an Associate of The Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) for her outstanding contribution to the music industry and she has recently been sworn in as a Freeman at The Worshipful Company of Musicians.
The start of 2024 has started with the recording of Davina’s second solo album The Art of Obligato, which is due to be released later this year on Voces8 Records.
Off the platform, Davina is founder and host of ‘The Classical Corner’, a podcast which takes listeners behind the scenes of the classical music world today, through discussions with some of the world’s most highly regarded musicians. She has recently appeared on BBC Radio 3 as a presenter on ‘Inside Music’. Davina also hosts, ‘Musical Mixology’, an online cocktail series, exploring the relationship between classical music and cocktails. Her most recent collaboration has been a campaign with Fever-Tree.
Davina plays on both a 1659 Francesco Ruggieri violin and also a 1699 Giovanni Baptista Rogeri violin and is very grateful to Sebastian Lyon, The VEC Acorn Trust and The Stradivari Trust for their generous support.
