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Incredibly honoured to have received a special mention at the CAVATINA Intercollegiate Chamber Music Competition at Wigmore Hall, London. Amazing experience performing Beethoven Op.59 No.1 in such a beautiful venue! by @thewaverleyquartet

Upcoming Concerts | The Waverley Quartet

6th May, 1:00pm St Mary’s Music School, Edinburgh

9th May, 6:00pm Ledger Recital Room, RCS

16th May, 3:00pm Wigmore Hall, London (CAVATINA competition finals)

21st May, 1:00pm Stevenson Hall, RCS Chamber Music Showcase

#stringquartet #beethoven #violin #viola #cello #violingram #royalconservatoireofscotland #wigmorehall #stmarysmusicschool #classicalmusic #chambermusic #chambermusicians #beethovenop59no1 by @thewaverleyquartet

Meet The Players | The Waverley Quartet
Sarah Baker (20) is an American cellist who began playing at age three and attends the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, studying with Dr. Alison Wells. Sarah has soloed with The Utah Symphony, Utah Philharmonic and with the Timpanogos, American Fork, Warminster Symphonies, and The Orchestra at the Canongate. Sarah has soloed in concert halls throughout the United States including Lincoln Center and Strathmore Hall. Recently, Sarah has been awarded the Governor’s Chamber Music Prize with her piano trio, the Ian D Watt Award for cello, and the Beatrice Huntington Award. Sarah has also won the Utah Symphony Youth Guild Competition and the Washington Performing Arts Society Feder Competition. Sarah and her sister Hannah were also selected to perform on NPR’s popular From The Top Program in 2022.

With her mother and siblings, Sarah has performed in musical group ”Jenny Oaks Baker & Family Four” with orchestras and choirs throughout the country including The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra on Temple Square, the Millennial Choirs and Orchestras and The Utah Symphony. A favorite with audiences, they have performed throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and in Africa. Their debut album, “Jenny Oaks Baker & Family Four” hit #4 on the Billboard Classical Crossover and Classical Charts and their most recent album, “Joy to the World” hit #7 on the Billboard Classical Crossover Chart. by @thewaverleyquartet

Meet The Players | The Waverley Quartet

Aiden Macdonald (19) began his musical journey through Sistema Scotland’s Big Noise programme in Govanhill where he started playing the viola aged seven, under the tutelage of Simon Rawson. In 2019, Aiden was awarded a place at the Junior Royal Conservatoire of Scotland through RCS’s Transitions Programme to study with Dr Lev Atlas.

During his time at the conservatoire, Aiden has developed into an outstanding young viola player and musician, enjoying growing success as a soloist, having performed the Bohuslav Martinu Rhapsody-Concerto with the RCS Juniors Symphony Orchestra after winning the 2023 Juniors RCS Concerto competition. Aiden also continues to develop his skills a chamber music player, and an orchestral musician.

Through his involvements with the Big Noise Programmes, Aiden has participated in side-by-side concerts with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He has performed at the Scottish Parliament on multiple occasions, including during the televised royal visit for the Parliament’s 25th Anniversary, and has given performances of the Telemann Viola Concerto with the Big Noise Govanhill orchestra, and the Paisley Sinfonia in November 2024.

As an orchestral player, Aiden has played principal viola in RCS Junior Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra, principal viola in the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and was awarded a place in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain as a member of the viola section, and as a String Leader in the NYOGB’s leadership programme in 2024.

In August 2023, Aiden enrolled in the Music School of Douglas Academy, where he performed the Stamitz Viola Concerto with the orchestra in May 2024, and he is now continuing his studies at RCS, undertaking a BMus in viola performance under the tutelage of Dr Lev Atlas and Fiona Winning.

In November 2024, Aiden won 1st Prize in the Watson Forbes prize for viola players at the RCS, and in January 2025, competed as one of the 19 competitors in the Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition in The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Newcastle. by @thewaverleyquartet

Meet the Players | The Waverley Quartet

Beatrice Devlin (19) is an American violinist currently attending the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under the tutelage of Donnie Deacon.

Beatrice began violin lessons at the age of 10 in Virginia before moving to Los Angeles a year later and continuing her studies there. She attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), where she was concertmaster of the school’s orchestra and string ensemble, and spent a year in the Colburn School’s Ed and Mari Edelman Chamber Music Institute.

Over her four years at LACHSA, Beatrice participated in several gigs and projects throughout Los Angeles and her school, which spanned multiple genres, including classical, pop, and jazz. In addition to classes in classical violin playing, she took classes in music production and jazz improvisation. She has written/improvised and recorded violin parts for several independent projects, such as films, indie songs, and concerts.

She has played in masterclasses for and received lessons from several highly respected mentors such as Alejandro Drago, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, and Chin Kim. In the summers of 2022 and 2023, she was accepted into the Sphinx Performance Academy at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Juilliard under the tutelage of world-renowned musicians such as Melissa White, and the Catalyst Quartet.

In the summer of 2024, she was accepted into the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive’s (LAFCI) studio intensive, where she worked with recording studio greats such as Dennis S Sands, Tito Puente Jr., Angel Velez, Alyssa Park, and Nathan Cole to record multiple film scores of various genres at Warner Bros. Studios for the Intensive’s debut album. by @thewaverleyquartet

Meet the Players | The Waverley Quartet

Viktor Seifert (18) is a German-Scottish violinist and composer currently studying under Andrea Gajic at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

As a soloist, Viktor has performed to audiences in
many of Britain’s most prestigious concert venues,
including Birmingham Town Hall, Menuhin Hall,
Queen’s Hall Edinburgh, Perth Concert Hall,
Steinway Hall, Cedars Hall and the Millennium
Center Cardiff. From 2019-2021, Viktor was
concertmaster in the National Children’s Orchestras
of Great Britain.

Viktor’s work as a performer and composer has been broadcast on UK and German radio channels such as BBC Radio Scotland, SWR2 and HR2
Klassik. He has taken part in masterclasses with Nicola Benedetti, Michael Foyle and Jack Liebeck, and received guidance from composers David Horne and Simon Stockhausen.

Viktor’s 24/25 season includes performances of Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1 with the ECFA orchestra and Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra, as well as recitals across the UK and his Wigmore Hall debut as first violin in the Waverley Quartet.

As a composer, Viktor’s work has been performed and recorded by the RSNO, Red Note Ensemble and winners of the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, in venues such as the Tauberphilharmonie Weikersheim, Royal Glasgow Concert Hall, and Menuhin Hall.

Viktor is a laureate of numerous national and international competitions, including Jugend Komponiert, Germany’s most important accolade for
young composers, which he won four times. He was also awarded second prize at the Young Composers International Composition Competition of the
Franz Schubert Conservatoire in Vienna in 2021. by @thewaverleyquartet