Dr Pauline Nobes, Artistic Director

Baroque violinist, Pauline Nobes, is recognised as one of Europe’s foremost specialists in historical performance practice. For many years she worked with ensembles such as The English Baroque Soloists, The English Concert and Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique playing in the most prestigious concert halls and festivals throughout Europe, the USA and Japan participating in over 100 CD productions.

As concertmaster, she lead The Academy of Ancient Music, the Kölner Akademie and Musica Antiqua Köln. In addition to her much loved chamber music Pauline is a member of the Dresdner Festpielorchester and guest leads Das Neue Orchester and opera house orchestras including Frankfurt and Madrid.

Pauline is Professor for Baroque violin at the Musikhochschule in Würzburg (Germany) and has a longstanding teaching appointment at The Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK). As artistic director and leader, Pauline is a founder member of Manchester Baroque.

In 2001 Pauline Nobes attained her Ph.D in music. Substantial research and music editing highlight the unaccompanied solo violin repertory and related string techniques before 1750, the subject of her doctoral studies, various articles and her solo violin CD The Unaccompanied Solo Violin: Vilsmayr and Noguiera. Her research project Musick in Manchester underpins the Concert Series launched by Manchester Baroque in 2019.

Unusually, Pauline started her musical life as a brass player. She was awarded her ARCM diploma in trumpet performance at the early age of 17. These beginnings are not forgotten: she has recorded the solo trumpet role in Beethoven’s Leonore with Sir John Eliot Gardiner‘s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique after succesful concert tours including Salzburg’s Festspielhaus and New York’s Lincoln Centre.