Seth Collin

Seth Collin is currently studying the cello with Louise Hopkins at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, supported by awards from the Countess of Munster Trust and Help Musicians. Seth particularly enjoys exploring the extensive chamber music repertoire for the cello, and was a participant on the Instrumental Award Scheme during his undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge, receiving coaching from members of the Doric Quartet and Maggini Quartet. He has received further mentorship through programmes including ChamberStudio, the Wye Valley Festival Summer Residency, and a MusicWorks Advanced Quartet Study Course with the Telyn Quartet.

He recently participated in a Maiastra chamber music course led by Florence Cooke, and was a ‘Young Artist’ for the 2024 Brundibar Arts Festival. He recorded a disc of works for cello ensemble and voice with Roderick Williams and the Endellion Cellos which will be released on SOMM Recordings in 2025. Seth also has a keen interest in new music, personal highlights of which include performances of Philip Venables’ chamber opera ‘Denis and Katya’ and of Boulez’s Messagesquisse with David Cohen as part of an LSO Chamber Ensemble concert. In 2023 Seth founded the Pudding Chare Music Festival, an annual chamber music festival taking place in his
hometown of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Seth has enjoyed recent concerto performances of Brahms’ Double Concerto with the City of Cardiff Symphony Orchestra and Northumberland Orchestral Society, and of Haydn D major Concerto with the Orchestra of Clare College, Cambridge. He has participated on orchestral schemes including the Chipping Campden Festival Orchestra Academy, and the St. Endellion Festival Orchestra, and he was Co-Principal of the National Youth Orchestra in 2020. Prior to commencing his studies at GSMD, Seth is grateful to have studied with Karen Stephenson, Jennifer Langridge at the JRNCM, where he won the concerto competition, and Sue Lowe. Seth is a keen educator, and coaches chamber music on Procorda’s Saturday school alongside private teaching. He is frequently invited back by NYOGB to lead musical workshops for young people, and each year runs chamber music coaching days and school visits with the Pudding Chare Music Festival.