Bradley Parrimore
About this Artist
Bradley Parrimore, a native of Houston, TX, started studying the violin at the age of 8 with Edith Posey and Nikola Augsberger. He made the change to viola at 16 under the tutelage of Ivo-Jan van der Werff and was accepted to the Colburn School in Los Angeles a year later. Noted for his playing as “most striking,” with “no weaknesses” (American Record Guide) and “flawless execution” (Palm Beach Daily News), he has won top prizes in the Houston Symphony League Concerto Competition and the National YoungArts Foundation competition, among others. Parrimore has been featured on radio and television broadcasts of WQXR and HBO. In the fall of 2015, Soundset Recordings released the album Bloch, Glinka, Bowen: Viola Works, featuring a 19-year-old Parrimore and pianist Vivian Fan.
In 2021, Parrimore was invited to join the viola section of the New World Symphony. Shortly after his arrival in Florida, he was awarded a temporary section position in the Jacksonville Symphony. After his first rehearsals under the music director, he was assigned the position of Associate Principal for the duration of the season. Parrimore would go on to perform as a guest with the Minnesota Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Oregon Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, as well as to tour with the Sphinx Virtuosi and New York Philharmonic.
An avid chamber musician, Parrimore has played chamber works across North America and Europe in master classes and recitals. He has collaborated with esteemed musicians of the Tokyo, Medici, and St. Lawrence string quartets along with others such as Jon Kimura Parker, Joshua Bell, Anthony McGill, and Christian Altenberger. He has been invited to festivals and institutes such as the Mozarteum’s Sommerakademie, the Heifetz International Music Institute, and the Music Academy of the West, where he was selected to participate in the String Quartet Seminar under the mentorship of the Grammy Award-winning Takács Quartet.
Parrimore is a passionate instructor, serving as a mentor for the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles along with being a teaching artist of the VIA Academy and MusicLab in Miami. He holds degrees as a full-scholarship student from the Manhattan School of Music studying with Patinka Kopec and the University of Southern California with Karen Dreyfus.