Biography

Mabelle is a recipient of the Musicians’ Company Goldman Award, Clarence Myerscough Award, Harbour Foundation Award and the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize, and she is grateful for the generous support of the Leverhulme Arts Trust, J & A Beare Cultural Trust and the Harbour Foundation.

Mabelle has performed in many prestigious venues around the world including the Royal Festival Hall, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Moscow International House of Music, Drapers’ Hall and Carnegie Hall. Mabelle has appeared as a soloist at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall and has given invitational recitals in numerous stages across Europe and Asia.

In recent years, Mabelle has been invited to perform and participate in international music festivals such as the IMS Prussia Cove, Aldeburgh Festival, Alpen Kammer Music Festival, Hellensmusic Masterclass Programme and the Aspen Music Festival as a Polonsky Foundation Fellow. She has recently performed with the Nash Ensemble, including a world premiere work in the Wigmore Hall.

Having been concertmaster and co-principal of the Royal Academy Chamber and Symphony Orchestras, Mabelle worked with renowned conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Sir Mark Elder and Trevor Pinnock. As part of the LSO String Experience Scheme, Mabelle has worked under Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Antonio Pappano with the London Symphony Orchestra in a series of concerts this year.

As an avid chamber musician, Mabelle has collaborated and performed with leading musicians such as Anthony Marwood, Gil Shaham, Guy Johnston, Bruno Delepelaire and Julien Quentin. As a founding member of the Regency String Quartet, Mabelle has been on the Frost Trust Advanced Specialist String Ensemble Training scheme, receiving mentoring from the Doric String Quartet. The quartet has recently been selected as 2025/26 Kirckman Concert Society artists, and they look forward to a series of concerts next year. In 2023, they were selected for the Sir Elton John Global Exchange Programme through the Royal Academy of Music, which included masterclasses in Hong Kong with musicians from the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society. Mabelle has won numerous chamber music awards including the Harold Craxton Prize, Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize, Seoul Chamber Music Competition and the Historical Women Composers Prize.

Forthcoming engagements include participating in the Encuentro de Música y Academia Santander in Spain and performing in Wigmore Hall as a Gold Medal finalist of the ROSL Competition. A series of quartet concerts in France through the Ferrandou Musique residency and a debut recital in Kings Place London will also take place in the upcoming season. Mabelle looks forward to continuing her studies with full scholarship at the Royal College of Music in September, through the Artist Diploma programme.

Mabelle plays on a Stefan-Peter Greiner violin from 2016, along with a bow generously on loan from the Royal Academy of Music.