Ruth Bass - Violin
Haberdashers' School for Girls, Monmouth
Previously of  The Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera


Ruth Bass started learning the violin, aged three, from her father David, himself a violinist and teacher, in her home town of Cambridge. These lessons with her father continued until she was fourteen when she began studying with Howard Davies, first violin of the Alberni String Quartet. Ruth won one of the few Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music scholarships to the Royal Academy of Music, London, just before her seventeenth birthday, taking it up a year later, and continuing her studies with Howard Davies.

On leaving the RAM, Ruth joined the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera was there for fifteen years, before leaving in 2002. Ruth is currently the strings co-ordinator at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls