Violinist Rosamund Hawkins leads a versatile freelance career in the UK and abroad. She benefited from an immersive music education at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts and New England Conservatory before moving to the UK to study at the Royal Northern College of Music with Dr. Louise Lansdown, Vicci Wardman and composer Garth Knox. She has also studied orchestral performance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Adam Romer.
Rosamund is a founding member of the Sono Ensemble, which focuses on immersive experiences based around contemporary programmes, and the freeform ensemble the Untold Orchestra, where she has produced and performed in cross-art and multi-genre collaborations including a headline at Manchester International Festival and a collaboration with pianist Bill Laurance at EFG London Jazz Festival 2021. With the Gaskell Quartet, which formed at the RNCM, Rosamund performed at Dada Fest International working on commissions from composers with disabilities, and performed on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune series after winning the RNCM Schubert Prize.
Rosamund is also an avid orchestral musician, and has freelanced with the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Opera North and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras. She was also Guest Principal violist with the Lapland Chamber Orchestra in 2019-2020 under the direction of John Storgards.
Rosamund plays a Douglas Cox 2005 original model viola from her native New England.