Introduction
Kimon is a young freelance orchestral, chamber and solo musician who has played with top orchestras and ensembles including the London Chamber Orchestra, The Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. He has recenty completed his postgraduate studies with Distinction at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Mark Van de Weil, with financial support from the Countess of Munster Trust, Ann Driver Trust and Picker Award. Prior to that, Kimon was a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music studying under Richard Hosford. Before graduating with a First Class Honours, Kimon won the Edward and Helen Hague Senior Woodwind Prize at the RCM.
You can listen to Kimon perform in a recording of Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue and Riffs on the "American Icons" CD produced by the RAM and broadcast on BBC Radio 3's CD Review.
The Davis Clarinet Quartet
Kimon is a founder member of the Davis Clarinet Quartet formed in 2009 by fellow students at the Royal Academy of Music. The quartet are "Live Music Now"artists and in 2011 were voted in the top 50 out of 7500 applicants for the Pizza Express Big Audition Competition