Biography
Internationally recognized for his chamber music performances, British violinist James Dickenson first took up the violin at age seven. Early studies brought him to the Junior Academy of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where Lydia Mordkovitch and Christopher Rowland served as his teachers. He later relocated to the United States to work with Daniel Phillips of the Orion String Quartet. From 2000 to 2008 he performed with the Degas Quartet while simultaneously acting as concertmaster of the Western Piedmont Symphony in North Carolina between 2003 and 2007. In 2010 he became a founding member and first violinist of the London-based Villiers Quartet, which subsequently assumed quartet-in-residence positions at the University of Oxford and Nottingham High School. The ensemble has documented Robert Still’s complete string quartets for Naxos. Dickenson has also recorded Louis Spohr’s violin duets alongside violinist Jameson Cooper, the first volume of which appeared on Naxos in 2018.
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