Matthew Truscott - violin

Born in Yorkshire, Matthew Truscott pursues a busy freelance career combining modern instrument playing with gut strings and period performance. Having graduated with first class honours from the Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied with Erich Gruenberg and Simon Standage, he went on to study with Vera Beths at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague.

Since then Matthew has been in demand as guest leader with numerous ensembles including Florelegium and the Steinitz Bach Players, as well as being a principal member of the Academy of Ancient Music, the English Baroque Soloists and the London Mozart Players.

He is second violin of the Dante Quartet, which tours widely throughout the UK and abroad; their recording of the Rubbra quartets was a prize-winner in the Gramophone awards.