Victoria Davies, harp

Victoria Davies studied harp as a postgraduate at the Royal Academy of Music, before which she read music at Christ Church, Oxford, and she is now an experienced solo and orchestral harpist. In October 2000 and 2001 she won the London Harp Competition, in January 2001 received a Jellinek Award, and was a national semi-finalist and London Region Winner in the 2002 BBC Young Musicians Competition. Concerto appearances including Handel and Boïeldieu Harp Concertos and the Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto with Guildford Symphony Orchestra, Surrey Mozart Players, Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and the Charterhouse Orchestra. She performed at the 5^th European Harp Symposium in Amsterdam (2001), at World Harp Congresses in Prague (1999) and Geneva (2002), and at Buckingham Palace (2002), and at the Foreign Office in 2000, accompanying José Cura and Kathryn Harries at the BT Voices for Hospices Concert. In December 2002, she performed Britten’s Ceremony of Carols with Christ Church Cathedral Choir at St. John’s Smith Square, London, and with whom she has recorded the work.

Victoria was previously a music scholar at Charterhouse, studied at the Royal College of Music Junior Department with Daphne Boden, and was Principal Harp in the National Youth Orchestra. She holds ABRSM performance diplomas on harp and on piano, and now studies harp with Skaila Kanga. She plays regularly in Oxford with Mimi Amici, the chamber ensemble she founded in 2001.