Patrick Savage

violinist

Patrick was a student of Donald Scotts in Melbourne at the Victorian College of the Arts and then Dr Felix Andrievsky at the Royal College of Music in London. As a chamber player he was also a Leverhulme Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music and a Junior Fellow at the Royal College.

In his years as first violinist in the Tippett Quartet, he performed critically acclaimed Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room recitals and championed British contemporary composers

In Britain, he has featured as soloist with multiple orchestras including the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the Young Musicians’ Symphony Orchestra. In Australia, his live recital recording with Sally Whitwell on piano of Whitwell’s ‘Suite From An Imaginary Film’ was released on CD by the ABC and receives frequent radio play.

As guest concertmaster, he has toured and recorded with major orchestras including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Liverpool Philharmonic, the Australian World Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Opera Australia Orchestra.

As a studio musician, Patrick has recorded for film scores with combined box office takings of over thirteen billion US dollars, including many of the biggest blockbusters of recent decades, including THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, the live-action remake of Disney’s, THE LITTLE MERMAID, GODZILLA VS KONG and WONDER WOMAN 1984 as well as television series such as CALL THE MIDWIFE and DOWTON ABBEY. He has also contributed as a musician to albums by legendary recording artists including Paul McCartney, Radiohead, Frank Ocean and Sting.

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Patrick Savage writes in The Strad magazine about recording the album, The Golden Age of Hollywood: Concert Works for Violin and Piano

Photo by Benjamin Ealovega