Max and Peggy Morgan Prize Winner

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Programme 

Philipp Scharwenka Sonata – Fantasia for viola and piano, Op.106 

Paul Patterson – Tides of Mananan 

Paul Hindemith – Viola Sonata in F, Op.11 No. 4 

St James’s is grateful for the generous support of Rolex for this music programme.

Eve Quigley is an Irish violist studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studies with Matthew Jones. She is the 2024 recipient of the Max and Peggy Viola Prize at Guildhall, with today marking her prizewinning recital.

A passionate chamber musician, Eve regularly performs with her quartet, who were selected as Britten Pears Young Artists for 2024-2025 and Southwell Festival Apprentices in 2024. In March 2024, they won the Guildhall School’s St James’ Prize. She has also performed in the West Cork Chamber Music Festival Young Musicians’ Series from 2021 to 2024.

Eve is an experienced orchestral musician, having performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and alongside members of the Aurora Orchestra at Southwell Music Festival. She was a reserve member of the European Union Youth Orchestra in 2023 and has played with ensembles including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Young, the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, and the Ulster Youth Orchestra, where she led the viola section.

Eve has received significant recognition in competitions, recently winning the 2025 Irish Heritage Homan Potterton Bursary for Strings. She was awarded first prize in the Senior Viola Cup at the 2022 Feis Ceoil and achieved Very Highly Commended in the 2024 Aileen Gore Cup. She has participated in the Camerata Ireland Academy and the Davidsbündler Academy in the Netherlands and has taken masterclasses with musicians such as Máté Szűcs, Santa Vižine, Robert Levin, and Alastair Tait.

Eve began her musical studies at the Young European Strings School of Music, where she trained for 15 years. In 2021, she earned a Diploma in Music Teaching and Performance with distinction under Rosalind Ventris at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. She is grateful for the generous support of Fingal County Council in her studies.

Craig White is a passionate and highly acclaimed chamber musician, dedicated to both instrumental and vocal repertoire. A graduate from St Catherine’s College, Oxford and Royal Academy of Music in London, he studied with Michael Dussek and Diana Ketler.

Craig has won various accolades including the Centenary Kathleen Ferrier Awards, adding to his top accompanist prizes at the Thelma King Awards, Great Elm Vocal Awards, and AESS Finals. He made his conducting debut with London Youth Opera’s The Magic Flute. Internationally, Craig has toured South Korea and Japan, captivating audiences with his performances. Craig’s career as a staff pianist at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and a duo-coach at the Royal College of Music has allowed him to share his expertise with aspiring musicians.

His debut at the prestigious Wigmore Hall with Oboist James Turnbull in October 2010 marked the beginning of a remarkable journey, performing at all the major concert venues around London. Craig’s versatility as a collaborative pianist has led him to work at various International Music Academies, including the Schiermonnikoog masterclasses in Holland, Rencontres Musicales Internationales D’Enghien in Belgium, Kronberg Akademie in Germany, and the Voksenasen Akademie in Norway. In 2017, he adjudicated the Con Brio Piano Competitionin Mumbai, India, and has collaborated with renowned artists such as Dame Kiri te Kanawa and Waltraud Meier at the Aix-en-Provence Académie.

In high demand, Craig spent 2015 living in Germany, working for the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne. He toured the UK with Russian violinist Adelia Myslov and appeared with Soprano Eleanor Dennis on the BBC programme “The Joy of Mozart”. In 2018, he performed on BBC Radio 3 in a live soundtrack of Daniel Elms’ ‘Bethia’ during the Hull New Music Biennial. Craig is also a proud member of the “Philomel Project”, which brings a diverse series of concerts to the Crick Institute in London. He has recently completed a recording of Joseph Jongen melodies with Belgian soprano Sarah Defrise.

Beyond performing, Craig is an accomplished arranger. His new “5 Preludes for Violin and Piano” (Debussy/Arr White) are published by DB Edition and have been performed across Europe. They were featured on an album with Daniel Rowland on Violin and Natacha Kudritskaya on Piano, and his arrangement of Debussy’s “Serenade Interrompue” was later released on Daniel Rowland and Maja Bogdanovic’s debut CD, “Pas de deux”

Presented in association with Guildhall School of Music and Drama