Department of Strings, Harp and Guitar

• Head of Department

  • Louise Hopkins

• Deputy Head of Strings

  • Evan Rothstein

• Assistant Deputy Head

  • Krzysztof Smietana

• Senior Tutor for Strings Chamber Music

  • Matthew Jones

• Eugène Ysaÿe International Chair of Violin

  • David Takeno

• Violin

  • Simon Blendis
  • Boris Kucharsky
  • Levon Chilingirian
  • Ofer Falk
  • Simon Fischer
  • Arisa Fujita
  • Stephanie Gonley
  • Roberto González-Monjas
  • Janice Graham
  • Oliver Heath
  • Alexander Janiczek
  • Cerys Jones
  • András Keller - Béla Bartók International Chair
  • Akiko Ono
  • Krysia Osostowicz
  • Laurent Quenelle
  • Jacqueline Ross
  • Krzysztof Smietana
  • David Takeno
  • Andrew Watkinson
  • Bartosz Woroch

• Historical Performance: Visiting Professor

  • Rachel Podger

• Historical Performance: Baroque and classical violin

  • Pavlo Beznosiuk
  • Oliver Webber

• Viola

  • Krzysztof Chorzelski
  • Germán Clavijo
  • Ulrich Eichenauer
  • Arisa Fujita
  • Matthew Jones
  • Gary Pomeroy
  • Rachel Roberts
  • David Takeno
  • Alexander Zemtsov

• Historical Performance: Baroque and classical viola

  • Pavlo Beznosiuk
  • Dr Peter Collyer

• Cello

  • Adrian Brendel
  • Pierre Doumenge
  • Tim Gill
  • Rebecca Gilliver
  • Leonid Gorokhov
  • Louise Hopkins
  • Oleg Kogan
  • Richard Lester
  • Tim Lowe
  • Christopher Murray
  • Stefan Popov
  • Ursula Smith

• Historical Performance: Baroque and classical cello

  • Joseph Crouch

• Double Bass

  • Luis Cabrera
  • Tim Gibbs
  • Rinat Ibragimov
  • Colin Paris
  • Kevin Rundell

• Historical Performance: Baroque and classical double bass

  • Cecelia Bruggemeyer

• Historical Performance: Consort of Viols

  • Liam Byrne

• Guitar

  • David Miller
  • Robert Brightmore

• Historical Performance: Baroque Guitar, Lute, Theorbo

  • William Carter
  • David Miller

• Harp

  • Imogen Barford (Head of Harp)
  • Bryn Lewis
  • Charlotte Seale
  • Joy Smith – Early Harp
  • Monika Stadler
  • Helen Tunstall

• Historical Performance: Early harps

  • Dr. Andrew Lawrence-King

• Chamber Music

  • Endellion Quartet - Visiting Quartet-in-Association
  • Takács Quartet - International Visiting Quartet
  • Belcea Quartet - Quartet in residence

• Manager

  • Lucy Butcher