The Palatinate Ensemble

Newly formed in 2024, the Palatinate Ensemble is an elite group comprised of some of the best musicians in Durham University that play smaller scale but highly complex works in a small chamber orchestra and in individually formed small ensembles including 2 string quartets and a wind quintet and String Octet

Previous performances this past year have seen the Palatinate Ensemble perform Brahm’s Serenade, Schubert’s Death and the Maiden quartet, and an arrangement of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 3 for the Ensemble.

Violin 1

Eleanor Turner - Concertmaster

Katherine Iveson-Vandy

Jessica Dowse

Isabel Lorato

Double Bass

Christian O’Brien

Aaron Siu

String Quartet 1

Eleanor Turner - Violin 1

Katherine Iveson-Vandy - Violin 2

Oskar Herbert-Young - Viola

Maddie Murray - Cello

The Ensemble

Violin 2

Eric Yeung - Principal

Stephen Wise

Jemima Brewer

Eleanor Brown

Woodwinds

Emma Phipps - Flute

Tom Dowdeswell - Oboe

James Riley - Clarinet

Connie Duggan - Bassoon

Joseph James - Horn 1

Bertie McVittie - Horn 2

Viola

Oskar Herbert-Young - Principal

Ottavia Eliot

Charlie Linekar

Will Bellaries

Brass

Alex Milburn - Trumpet

Marianne Gorton - Trombone

The Chamber Groups

Cello

Maddie Murray - Principal

Han Cho

Luca Evans

Percussion

Venus Lam

String Octet

Eric Yeung - Violin 1

Isabel Lorato - Violin 1

Jemima Brewer - Violin 2

Eleanor Brown - Violin 2

Charlie Lineker - Viola

Will Bellaries - Viola

Luca Evans - Cello

Aaron Siu - Double Bass