Maxine is a first violinist in the London Symphony Orchestra
Bio 💁🏻
Maxine began her professional orchestral career touring with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and the Academy of St. Martins-in-the-fields whilst still a first year student at the Royal Academy of Music. She successfully auditioned for a place on the London Symphony Orchestra string experience scheme whilst at the RAM and became a permanent member of the 1st violins in 2001 after graduating with an ARAM and a 1st class honours degree.
Maxine’s career with the LSO has taken her to countless countries across the globe including tours across Asia, South America and frequent trips to Europe. The orchestra perform up to 150 concerts a year at their home in the Barbican Centre and abroad.
Highlights of her time in the LSO include performing at the historic 100 year birthday concert for the LSO in 2004 and also at the London 2012 Olympic ceremonies. Maxine was honoured to be featured as one of five “Musicians behind the Moment”, an advertising campaign by the Musicians Union in 2018. She was also featured with a four page article in the Musician magazine the following year.
Maxine can be seen on YouTube in a series of online masterclasses for the LSO and on their "LSO play" app for tablets. She features on the LSO's YouTube channel in two duo recitals filmed at LSO St. Luke’s, one of which was the very first concert the orchestra ever streamed live online. She was also invited to interview Nikolai Znaider to discuss his thoughts on the Tchaikovsky Concerto as part of the LSO's 2015 Violin Festival.
📷 by Matthew Johnson
Maxine’s hobbies outside of work include tap dancing, hula hooping, anything to do with Star Wars and frequent trips to the cinema. She loves to spend time eating and shopping with her best friend, the violinist Sarah Chang when their schedules permit them to meet somewhere in the world.
She’s well known at work for her enthusiastic autograph hunting and since the invention of the smartphone, has an impressive gallery of selfies. These include photographs with George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Emili Sande, Guillermo del Toro, Damian Lewis, Tim Burton and Emma Thompson to name a few.