Trio Biographies
Trio Biographies
Eleanor Holmes has a scholarship to study violin with Remus Azoitei, international
soloist and Professor of violin, at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Between 2021 – 2023 Eleanor was a Leverhulme scholar and co-leader in the National
Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and between 2019 -2021 the leader of Hampshire
County Youth Orchestra. She was a member of the Royal College of Music Junior
Department and in 2023 she was joint winner of the Chamber Music Competition.
She was awarded her Diploma (DipABRSM) for violin performance with Distinction
when she was 14.
Recent solo performances include Vivaldi’s summer and winter seasons, and later
Leclair’s violin concerto op.7with the Westminster Chamber Orchestra, Saint-
Saëns’Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso with St SwithunsSymphony Orchestra,
Alexander Glazunov’s violin concerto in A minor with the Winchester Symphony
Orchestra, Mozart D major Violin Concerto with St John's Chamber Orchestra and
George Enescu Sonata no 2 in F minor for violin and piano in Winchester Cathedral.
Cameron Walls is a nineteen year old cellist studying at the Royal Academy of Music
with John Myerscough, as a scholarship holder.
A passionate orchestral musician, he was principal cello of the Young Sinfonia at Sage
Gateshead and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra in 2022, which led to
multiple performances broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and most notably a performance at
the BBC Proms 2022.
His experience in collaborative playing extends to chamber music, having won the
Avison Ensemble Young Musician's Award, and his piano trio at the Academy receives
regular coaching with esteemed musicians such as Anthony Marwood, Marije Johnston,
Adrian Brendel, and members of the Barbican and Doric String Quartets.
A versatile musician, he also has experience in historically informed performance having
performed numerous times with a viol consort in Gateshead. He now continues to play
in a viol consort at the Academy under the guidance of Nathan Giorgetti.
Cameron has also performed at prestigious venues all over the UK, including the Royal
Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican, Bridgewater Hall and Saffron Hall. His
concerto performances include Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Tyneside
Chamber Orchestra, Durham Youth Orchestra, and the Young Sinfonia in Sage 1.
In 2021 he attained a distinction in his cello Dip.ABRSM Diploma and a distinction in his
piano Dip.ABRSM Diploma in 2019.
Khrystyna Mykhailichenko is a young Ukrainian pianist. She began to play the piano
when she was four. Within six years, she was winning international piano competitions
and was performing in concerts throughout Europe and in the USA. The venues include
Salle Cortot in Paris, Bozar Hall in Brussels, the Music Academies of Bruges, Antwerp,
Krakow, Bremen, Gariunu concert hall in Vilnius, the University of Miami and Broward
Centre for the Performing Arts, the World Bank in Washington DC, the UN residence in
New York and all the National Philharmonics of Ukraine.
At the outbreak of war in February 2022, she ed to Poland with her mother and sister
before settling in the North East of the UK in June.
As well as continuing to travel extensively for performances, she studied at the Junior
RNCM under Graham Scott. She won a full scholarship from the Royal Academy of
Music in London and has started her undergraduate course there in September 2023
under professor Joanna MacGregor. Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, the Royal Academy’s
principal, said: “Khrystyna Mykhailichenko is an extraordinary talent of rare maturity for
her age. She came and played the Chopin Ballade No 1 to me recently and revealed
what a serious artist she is, almost as if the burdens of a hard life were being
channelled through her playing. This was well beyond the carefree virtuosity one hears
in this piece so often. It also had real grip and originality.”
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The Aureus Trio was formed at the Royal Academy of Music in 2023 and has been
developing brilliantly being regularly coached by musicians such as Anthony Marwood,
Marije Johnston, Adrian Brendel, and members of the Barbican and Doric String
Quartets.