Our Soloists

 

Yume Tomita - Violinist

Yume Tomita is a seventeen-year-old Japanese violinist and the Grand Prize winner of the Il Piccolo Violino Magico International Competition for Young Violinists in Italy. Most recently, she won 3rd Prize at the Hengqin International Mozart Competition in China.

 

Her other accolades include 1st Prize at the Ilona Fehér International Violin Competition in Hungary, 2nd Prize at the Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition in Italy, and 3rd Prize at the Grumiaux International Violin Competition in Belgium.

Yume began playing the violin at the age of five and gave her first recital in Italy at seven. A year later, she was awarded a place at the Yehudi Menuhin School, where she now studies with Dr. Robin Wilson and has received additional guidance from numerous distinguished violinists through international masterclasses.

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Her concerto debut took place in 2019 with the Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra in Budapest. Recent highlights include performances at Cremona Mondomusica (Italy), the Klassiek Leeft Festival (Belgium), and multiple concerto engagements with the Accademia d’Archi Arrigoni (Italy). In the 2025 spring/summer season, she appeared with the Marlborough Concert Orchestra (Tchaikovsky), Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra (Barber), and the National Symphony Orchestra (Mozart Sinfonia Concertante), and performed at the Festival Academy Budapest.

 

Reuben Moisey – Piano

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Awarded a Distinction in his ATCL Diploma aged 12, Reuben currently studies at the RCM Junior Department with his father, Alvin. He won the department’s top piano prizes in 2022 and 2023, and received the Lord Mayor’s Junior Musician Award in 2024, later giving a recital in the City of London.

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After winning the Ealing Festival concerto competition in 2022, he performed Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto and Lutosławski’s Paganini Variations with the Ealing SO. He has since played Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini three times in the UK and Japan, and Mozart’s D minor Concerto K.466 with orchestras in Chester and London.

 

He has recently been awarded a full scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music from September 2026.

 

Alice Mizelli – Harpist

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Alice Mizelli started playing the harp when she was 8 years old. She grew up playing in various youth choirs and ensembles including the National Youth Harp Orchestra, an ensemble which she would later become the leader of.

 

Since the age of 16, she has been performing in various luxury hotels, weddings and other events across the country, and has a passion for the role music can play in bringing people together. She is currently studying with a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, learning with world-renowned harpists such as Catrin Finch and Skaila Kanga.

 

While at the Academy, she has played an organisation and performing role in many performances of new contemporary music, as well as directing her own experimental chamber concert in the Students Create Festival 2026. 

 

Sammy Mills – Tenor

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Samuel Mills is a British tenor currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music with Adrian Thompson where he is a recipient of the prestigious Sir Elton John Award.

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Born and raised in Leeds, he has worked with Leeds Lieder and Opera North. In the last year Samuel has taken part in a masterclass with David Butt Philip, played the role of Rinuccio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and First Armed Man in Mozart’s Zauberflöte.

 

He has performed in such venues as Leeds Town Hall, The Howard Assembly Room, Regent Hall, Sinfonia Smith Square, The Sage Gateshead, Saffron Hall and The Royal Albert Hall. ​​​​​​Samuel received 2nd place in the Eastbourne International Singing Competition 2025.

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Accompanist - Nigel Wilkinson

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Nigel was for many years a senior producer for BBC Radio 3, where he oversaw the radio production of the Proms for six years. He produced many hundreds of studio recordings, collaborating with a wide range of leading performers, and also made award-winning documentaries.  He ran Radio 3’s Young Artists’ Forum scheme for emerging talent, and was made an honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of his involvement with young musicians at the start of their professional career. 

 

Before joining the BBC, he read mathematics at King’s College, Cambridge, and then music as a postgraduate at London University, where he was awarded a PhD in musical analysis.  He now works as a pianist, conductor and teacher. He was an ABRSM examiner for many years and continues to be involved in recording projects. As a pianist he has performed widely in chamber music, especially in partnership with the violinist Ron Colyer and the cellist Paul Cox, and has also given a complete cycle of the Mozart piano concertos, directed from the piano.

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