India Reilly is an 18 year old violinist studying with Jennifer Pike at the Royal College of Music. She is a graduate of St Mary's Music School where she won the Director's Recital Prize in 2023. She was awarded the Winifred Gavine medal for strings recital and The Horace Fellows medal for chamber music in the Edinburgh Competition Festival, and was highly commended in the Lord Clyde Concerto Competition and the Nan Christie Memorial Prize for Strings. She has taken part in many masterclasses with violinists including Jonian Ilias Kadesha, Simon Fischer, Jack Liebeck, Gaby Lester, Salvatore Greco, and Lev Atlas. India has enjoyed performing solo recitals in venues such as Greyfriars Kirk and St Mary's Cathedral, including as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
She was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and worked under well known conductors such as Sir Mark Elder, Andrew Gourlay, and Alexandre Bloch, including performances in the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms. She previously co-lead the Junior RCS Symphony Orchestra, performing many times, including at the COP26 climate conference.
India greatly enjoys chamber music and was in the St Mary's senior string quartet and horn trio, among other ensembles, performing in venues such as the Usher Hall as part of a pre-concert program for the RSNO, and as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.