Esme Greenwood is 14 years old and comes from Sheffield, where she is a pupil at Tapton School. She started learning the violin at the age of 6 with Rebecca Francis, and she currently studies with Catherine Yates at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music. In 2022, she participated in the international MusicAlp Summer School in Tignes, France, and the following year, at the age of 12, she won the Open Strings Class at the Mrs Sunderland Music Festival in Huddersfield, where she was selected to perform Svendsen’s Romance for Violin in the Gala Concert.
In addition to solo work, Esme is a very enthusiastic orchestral and chamber music musician. She recently became one of the youngest players to be awarded a place in the National Youth Orchestra, performing in some of the country’s major concert venues including the Barbican, Birmingham Symphony Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.