Oliver Michael began the violin at the age of four with Karina MacAlpine and achieved his Grade 8 with Distinction at age 11. He studies with Dominika Rosiek and has been mentored by Nicola Benedetti and Guy Braunstein, former Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He has received awards at Beckenham, Blackheath and Maidstone Festivals and in 2024 was the youngest ever winner of the Trinity Musician of the Year Award, performing the first movement of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with members of the London Mozart Players. Oliver is a music scholar at Trinity School, has received scholarships to attend Pro Corda violin and chamber music courses and the MusicWorks chamber programme and is a member of South London Youth Orchestra 1. As a treble, Oliver appeared as Miles in Britten’s Turn of the Screw at the Theatre Royal Bath, Yniold in Debussy’s Pelléas et Melisande with Iván Fischer/Budapest Festival Orchestra and Die Knaben in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Glyndebourne Opera and performed in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s ground-breaking Montag aus Licht at Opera dé Lille. He was the treble soloist in a live-to-screen performance of The Fellowship of the Ring at the Royal Albert Hall and sang on the soundtracks to the film Spirited and the Netflix series All The Light We Cannot See. Other performances include Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream with Opera de Rouen, Berlioz’s L’Enfance Du Christ with the Monteverdi Choir/Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Mahler’s Symphony no. 3 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms.