India Reilly, violin

India Reilly is a violinist born in 2006, studying with Dr Valerie Pearson at St Mary's Music School. In March 2023 she won first prize with the Winifred Gavine medal in the Edinburgh Competition Festival 15 Minute Strings Recital, and in June she won the Director's Recital Prize at St Mary's Music School. She has also been highly commended in the Nan Christie Memorial Prize for Strings. She has taken part in many masterclasses with musicians including Jack Liebeck, Gaby Lester, Salvatore Greco, Tamas Fejes, and Lev Atlas.

She is a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, working under well-known conductors such as Alexandre Bloch and Andrew Gourlay, and recently performed in the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms. She previously co-lead the Junior RCS Symphony Orchestra, and performed with the RCS orchestra at the COP26 climate conference.

India greatly enjoys chamber music and is the first violinist in the St Mary's Senior String Quartet among other ensembles, and has recently performed in the Usher Hall as part of a pre-concert program for the RSNO, and as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.