Born in London in 1984, Nathalie Shaw made her concerto debut at the age of ten playing Mozart’s D major Concerto.

Nathalie studied then in London with David Takeno, in the U.S.A. at the Meadowmount School of Music and, with the aid of a full scholarship from the Zaleski Foundation, in Paris and Italy with Olivier Charlier and Ana Chumachenko.

Awarded her Premier Prix in Paris “à l’unanimité avec félicitations du jury” in 2004, in the same year she also became a “Fellow of the Royal Schools of Music (F.R.S.M.)”.

Nathalie was a laureate in the Avignon International Violin Competition, the Vatelot-Rampal Violin Competition and in 2007, won the 1st prize in the “Union Française des Musiciens” violin competition in Paris.

Nathalie has given recitals in festivals and music clubs in the U.K., France, Italy, Switzerland, and the USA. She has developed a wide-ranging recital repertoire and has a particular interest in 20th and 21st century music.

Over the last three years alone, she has performed concertos by Brahms, Bruch, Beethoven, Chausson, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Vieuxtemps and Vivaldi with orchestra.

Her performances of Paganini’s 1st Violin Concerto with the Leeds Sinfonia and Nottingham Symphony Orchestra were described as “heart-stopping”, “dazzling” and “full of bubbling wit” (Nottingham Evening Post).

She appeared as soloist in Stravinsky’s Concertino conducted by Pierre Boulez in the 2008 Lucerne Festival.

This season, she has included works by Bruno Maderna, Lutoslawski and James Macmillan in her programmes and gave the world première of Jérôme Combier’s “Anima Foglia” for solo violin in the Lucerne Festival, Switzerland this year.

In November she gave further performances of this work written for her, including as part of “Le Louvre invite Pierre Boulez” series in the Louvre, Paris (broadcasted live on french radio).

Nathalie is regularly invited to play with the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris and on tour, and performed at the “Festival de Musique de Chambre en Pays de Gex” 2009.

Passionate chamber musician, she has founded and is Artistic Director with the Shaw String Trio (her father Julian SHAW – viola, and her brother Jacob SHAW – ‘cello) of a chamber music festival in South West France, “Le Festival International de Musique de Chambre”.

Nathalie is Solo Violin of The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble in the U.S.A. and of Ensemble Multilatérale (based in Paris, France). Following a première performance of “Arches” for solo violin by Kevin Puts, The Pittsburgh Tribune described her virtuosity as “stunning” and “mesmerizing”.