Amalia Young is a violinist and improviser based in south east London, specialising in the performance of classical and experimental music. She enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician and soloist and has performed in the UK, Europe, and the US, including at Café OTO, the Aldeburgh Festival, St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Holywell Music Room, De Montfort Hall, the Ashmolean Museum, the Sheldonian Theatre, the Orpheus Institute, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Kammer Klang and Music We’d Like to Hear concert series. As an improviser, she has performed with folk, pop, and free improv groups across London, including shows at the EFG London Jazz Festival, IKLECTIK, Avalon Café, Matchstick Piehouse, and Grand Junction.

She has recently been involved in concert and recording projects with Apartment House, having played on their critically acclaimed recording of Morton Feldman’s Violin and String Quartet, released on Another Timbre.

Her ensemble projects also include the Kavinsky Trio (violin/sax/piano), who reached the mixed ensemble category final of the Royal Over-Seas League competition in 2020, and currently the Komuna Collective, who have brought programmes of contemporary and avant-garde string quartet music to nightclubs in Oxford and London. The Komuna Collective are currently supported by funding from Arts Council England to complete a recording project in late 2023, and from TORCH Oxford for a commissioning project to begin in 2024.

Taking an interest in mindfulness as an adjunct to musical practice, and the significance of music in forging community and deepening interpersonal relationships, Amalia has worked with the Music Mind Spirit Trust as a Young Artist Musical Ambassador, working with students from the Junior Royal Academy of Music in association with Live Music Now! to present community engagement sessions in care homes and online during the COVID lockdowns.

She completed her BMus (Hons) degree at the Royal Academy of Music, where she also received the Doris Faulkener violin prize upon graduation, and second place in the Winifred Small violin prize (2021). She holds masters degrees from the University of Oxford and Goldsmiths University of London, where she has been developing academic interests in embodiment and practice research.

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