Winner of the 2018 BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Award and 2023 BBC Music Magazine Premiere Recording Award, Fenella Humphreys has attracted critical admiration and audience acclaim for the grace and intensity of her remarkable performances, the press describing her playing as ‘alluring’, ‘unforgettable’, and ‘a wonder’. She enjoys a busy career combining chamber music with solo work, performing in the most prestigious venues around the world, and is frequently broadcast on the BBC, Classic FM, Scala Radio, and international radio stations. Her recent album of works for violin and orchestra by Sibelius, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and George Vass, featured in BBC Radio 3’s Building a Library and Gramophone’s Guide to the Concerto, was chosen Album of the Week by Scala Radio, and brought BBC Music to comment: ‘it takes an unusually fine artist to be able to bridge the two extremes. Fenella Humphreys’s playing is a genuine revelation in the way it brings out the music’s dark and introspective qualities, with no shortage of technical panache meanwhile.’ Her latest recording, Prism, centres round her new arrangement of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue, BWV 565, and explores the medium of unaccompanied violin repertoire through new or recent works by young British composers as well as Caroline Shaw, Jessie Montgomery, and George Walker. It was the ‘Instrumental Choice’ in the June issue of BBC Music, which described it as ‘a hugely accomplished release, fearlessly and vibrantly performed’. For the launch of Apple Music Classical, in April 2023, she was invited to record a ‘Classical Session’ at home, alongside Daniel Barenboim, Beatrice Rana, and Gautier Capuçon, and a handful of others. She is grateful to the Royal Philharmonic Society, Harriet Trust, and Arts Council England for their support during the Covid Pandemic. Fenella Humphreys plays a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, kindly lent by Jonathan Sparey.