Jeremy Williams

Jeremy Williams is currently Music Director at Yew Chung Education Foundation

Jeremy began his career as a violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra. He was a member of the Delme Quartet and Nash Ensemble, playing regularly with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the London Sinfonietta.

As violinist with the York Trio and violist with the Beethoven String Trio of London, he featured regularly on BBC broadcasts and made numerous recordings. Concert tours have taken him to major festivals all over the world including Edinburgh, Salzburg, Prague, Hong Kong and venues ranging from the Wigmore Hall, London, Sydney Opera House to the Forbidden City, Beijing.

In 1998 Jeremy was appointed Principal Viola with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and taught at the HK Academy for Performing Arts.

Jeremy became violist with the Australian String Quartet in 2002 and in 2009 was appointed Lecturer in Chamber Music and Director of Strings at the University of Tasmania. He has taught at the Sydney and Adelaide Conservatorium and Artist in Residence at the Queensland Conservatorium.

He was first violinist with the Diemen Quartet whilst resident in Tasmania.

Moving back to Hong Kong in 2015 Jeremy formed the Hong Kong Camerata Strings, an ensemble for talented young string players. They have given many performances including for RTHK and TVB.

Jeremy studied the violin at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London with Yfrah Neaman and David Takeno.