In 2022 Jaren Ziegler won the BBC Young Musician 2022 String Final becoming the first violist in the competition’s history to do so. In the Grand Final, he performed William Walton’s Viola Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Mark Wigglesworth.

---

In 2022 Jaren Ziegler won the BBC Young Musician Strings Final at age 16, becoming the first violist in the competition’s history to do so. In the Grand Final, he performed the Walton Viola Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. This led to invitations to perform solo recitals around the UK, such as at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford, Bath Festival, St George's Bristol, and Chiltern Arts Festival. In summer 2023 he performed Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with the London Mozart Players at St Jude's Proms, and attended the Verbier Festival Academy. The 2023/24 season brings further solo engagements including a first appearance at Lammermuir Festival, and several concerto performances with the Northern Chamber Orchestra.

Jaren was recently awarded First Prize in the Concerto Competition at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music, Junior Academy Viola Prize and Bromsgrove Young Musicians’ Platform and was the youngest participant in the 2021 Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition. He began playing the viola at age six and studies with Jacky Woods. He is a member of LGT Young Soloists, having toured internationally and recorded with them at Abbey Road Studios.

Jaren is grateful to the Young Classical Artists Trust for their generous support in their aftercare scheme for BBC Young Musician finalists.

Jaren plays a Stefano Scarampella viola, kindly loaned to him by the Beare’s International Violin Society.

Contact

To book Jaren please contact

Adam Maxey - Assistant Artist Manager

[email protected]

0207 379 8477

Banner Photo © BBC / Dan Prince

Article Photo © Ben Wilkin