Amalia Young is a London-based violinist and violist working across contemporary, experimental, and classical music. As a chamber and session musician, her career has spanned performances throughout the UK, Europe, and the US. 

Her work on the UK's experimental music scene has included appearances at concert series such as Music We'd Like to Hear, the London Contemporary Music Festival, Kammer Klang, and 840, as well as performing onstage at the Royal Opera House in Sarah Angliss's Giant. Her ensemble activities have included projects with Riot Ensemble, Plus-Minus Ensemble, and Apartment House. With the latter, she has performed variously in the UK, at Ensems Festival in Spain and recorded albums of music by composers such as Morton Feldman, Eden Lonsdale, and Kory Reeder. She performed at the Aldeburgh Festival as a Britten Pears Young Artist for 2024-25, with the Britten Pears Contemporary Ensemble in 2022, and with Les Marteaux in Cassandra Miller's Bel Canto. Her solo and chamber performances have taken her to, amongst others, LSO St Luke's, Café OTO, St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Holywell Music Room, the Royal Over-Seas League House, the Ashmolean Museum, De Montfort Hall, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Several of her performances, including with Plus-Minus, the London Contemporary Music Festival Orchestra, and her recording of Jordan Hunt’s Two, Alone for solo violin, have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Amalia is a member of the Komuna Collective, who toured their debut album Views From The Real World across the UK and at the Classical:NEXT 2025 conference in Berlin. Their work has been supported by Arts Council England, Oxford Cultural Programme, and the PRS Foundation. She is also a member of standard issue, who have performed experimental and improvised music extensively across the UK. 

Amalia serves on the artistic board of Swedish organisation Hjorted Art and Music, whose annual festival commissions new works and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration between artists. Their activities have been supported by the Swedish Arts Council, Svensk-Norska Samarbetsfoden, and the Anglo-Swedish Society.  

As a pop and session player, her engagements have included touring with Pete Tong, Jules Buckley, and the Essential Orchestra, performing with chamber folk band Tendertwin around the UK, and notably at the Aldeburgh Festival, Outer Town Festival, and Left of The Dial in Rotterdam, and recording orchestral strings for projects ranging from A24 film soundtracks to Paul Weller's album Find El Dorado. 

Deeply invested in music education and community engagement, Amalia has worked as an instrumental tutor for Sound and Music's annual summer school for young composers and has delivered outreach sessions in schools and care homes across the UK with the Berkeley Ensemble, standard issue, and the Music Mind Spirit Trust (in collaboration with Live Music Now), as well as in Sweden with Hjorted Art and Music. 

Amalia completed her BMus (Hons) as a scholar at the Royal Academy of Music under Philippe Honoré, receiving the Doris Faulkener violin prize upon graduation and second place in the Winifred Small violin prize. She holds MSt and MMus degrees with distinction from the University of Oxford and Goldsmiths, University of London respectively, where she studied with Mira Benjamin. As a student, she also benefitted from public masterclasses with Elena Urioste, Mandhira de Saram, and Maxim Vengerov, for whom she performed Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. 

She has studied internationally at the Ensemble Modern Young Ensemble Academy, IMD Darmstadt in the studio of Hae Sun Kang, and with Marco Fusi at the Orpheus Institute's summer artistic research seminars on Giacinto Scelsi and Luigi Nono. 

Amalia plays an 1893 Ch.J.B. Collin-Mezin violin, which she is grateful to have on loan from the Harrison-Frank Family Foundation.