Bradley Parrimore
About this Artist
Bradley Parrimore, a native of Houston, TX, started studying the violin at age 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 “most striking” playing 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 fall 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 and not long after was named Associate Principal. Parrimore has performed as a guest with the Minnesota Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Oregon Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and toured with the Sphinx Virtuosi and New York Philharmonic.
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.
Parrimore serves as a mentor for the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles and is a teaching artist of the VIA Academy and MusicLab in Miami. He holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Patinka Kopec, and the USC Thornton School of Music with Karen Dreyfus.