Biography

Mabelle is a recipient of numerous awards including the Parikian Award, Craxton Memorial Trust Award, Musicians’ Company Goldman Award, Clarence Myerscough Award, Harbour Foundation Award and the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize. She is a 2025/26 Phillip and Dorothy Green Young Artist, and she is grateful for the generous support of the Hattori Foundation, Countess of Munster Musical Trust, Leverhulme Arts Trust, J & A Beare Cultural Trust, Help Musicians UK and the Harbour Foundation.

Mabelle has performed in many prestigious venues around the world such as the Royal Festival Hall, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre, Moscow International House of Music, Drapers’ Hall and Carnegie Hall. She 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. Over the last year, Mabelle performed concertos with the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, Bromley Symphony Orchestra, Barnet Symphony Orchestra, and Cornwall Concert Orchestra.[

In recent years, Mabelle has been invited to perform and participate as a soloist in international music festivals such as the IMS Prussia Cove,  Encuentro de Música y Academia Santander, Aldeburgh Festival, Alpen Kammer Music Festival, Hellensmusic Masterclass Programme and the Aspen Music Festival as a Polonsky Foundation Fellow. She 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, Sir Antonio  and Thomas Ades with the London Symphony Orchestra in a series of concerts. She also worked with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra as Principal First Violin, and will perform with the Royal Scotland National Orchestra as Sub-Principal First Violin later this year.

As an avid chamber musician, Mabelle has collaborated and performed with leading musicians such as Anthony Marwood, Guy Johnston, Bruno Delepelaire and Alasdair Beatson. As a quartet musician, Mabelle has been on the Frost Trust Advanced Specialist String Ensemble Training scheme, receiving mentoring from the Doric String Quartet. The quartet were selected as 2025/26 Kirckman Concert Society artists, and held a series of concerts in France through the Ferrandou Musique residency. They performed in venues including Kings Place and Conway Hall. 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 a concerto debut with the renowned BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, and a solo recital in Bridgewater Hall through the Manchester Middays Concert Series. She will perform as a soloist with various orchestras and ensembles around the UK and Europe. Mabelle has been invited for the IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music in September, where she will perform alongside renowned musicians. 

Mabelle graduated Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts from the Royal Academy of Music with full scholarship, distinction and a DipRAM under the tutelage of So-Ock Kim.

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