Judith Evans double bass

Judith was a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music on the violin and double bass. Whilst at the RCM she was the only female double bass player in the European Youth Orchestra, and winner of the Birmingham final of the Shell/LSO Music Scholarship.

After leaving the RCM, she freelanced in London and worked in Madrid and Lyon before being offered a position in the English Baroque Soloists and L'Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, which began her involvement in early music.

Judith has played with the AAM since 1992, and is also principal double bass in the Gabrieli Players. She has appeared as guest principal with all the leading period-instrument orchestras and has travelled and recorded extensively. Recordings on which she is audible include Haydn’s Symphonies Nos.6, 7 and 8 with the Hanover Band and the Brandenburg Concertos with the Hanover Band and, more recently, the AAM.

In 2006 she appeared as soloist, alongside Christopher Purves, in Mozart's concert aria 'Per Questa Bella Mano', as part of the Barbican's 'Mostly Mozart' festival.

Whilst freelancing, Judith read English at Oxford University and went on to become an Associate Lecturer for the Open University. She lives in Oxford with her husband and two children.