Brigid Coleridge, violin
Brigid Coleridge is an Australian violinist and poet currently based in the US. She is a founding member of the award-winning Boston-based piano trio, the Merz Trio, with whom she has most recently been in professional residence at the New England Conservatory of Music. With the Trio, Brigid is a regular invitee to the Olympic, Lake Champlain and Chesapeake Festivals and has undertaken residencies at Yellow Barn, Snape Maltings and Avaloch Farm Institute. The trio received the 2021 Naumburg Competition First Prize, and their first album “Ink” debuted in 2021 at #2 in the Classical charts. Notable concert debuts for the 2022/2023 season included the Concertgebouw and Carnegie Hall.
As a recitalist, Brigid has performed in Australia and internationally in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Jordan Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Purcell Room. Highlights include a tour of Holland and an artist residency undertaken for Yellow Barn Festival in the US. Brigid’s recital projects often focus on her interest in music, literature and theatre, displaying a multidisciplinary engagement with the works she presents. She is particularly interested in exploring the theatrical possibilities of performance.
Brigid holds a doctoral degree in music from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she worked on Beethoven’s late Mass, the Missa Solemnis. In addition, Brigid holds an Artist Diploma and a Masters Degree in Performance from the Royal College of Music, London. She graduated BA/BMus from the University of Melbourne following studies in English Literature, French Language and Violin Performance. Important music mentors include Donald Weilerstein, Daniel Phillips, Maciej Rakowski and Mark Mogilevski.
Brigid is also a published poet whose work has appeared in Australian and international publications. She is the winner of the 2023 Gwen Harwood Prize for Poetry.