Dylan Edge is a second year undergraduate student studying at the Royal Northern College of Music, and is tutored by Deputy Head of Strings, Catherine Yates.  

 

Raised in Hednesford, Dylan was first introduced to the Violin aged 9, through the Staffordshire Performing Arts music scheme under Katalin Beke. He was later taught by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Opera North member, Byron Parish before successfully auditioning at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music, where he was generously funded and supported by the Leverhulme Scholarship and the Albert and Eugenie Frost Scholarship. 

 

It was not long before Dylan got involved with orchestral violin playing and he was excitingly offered a place in the City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Orchestra.  The CBSO Youth Orchestra has given Dylan many incredible opportunities in his career, which includes leading Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in one of the UK’s most prestigious venues, Symphony Hall.  He is also a member of the National Youth String Orchestra whom he performed with in the Ambleside International Music Festival and also at King’s Place, London.

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Dylan also featured in the National Youth Music Theatre’s annual season, where he performed at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s renowned theatre ‘The Other Palace.’  He appeared as a violinist in the world premiere of ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and also in "Anything Goes" where he was singled out by Susan Elkin in a review as "one of the very best things in the show" on musicaltheatrereview.com.  These experiences put him in good stead to later play in the pit orchestra of RNCM’s Young Company production of ‘Sweet Charity’.  

 

Whilst studying at the RNCM, Dylan’s orchestral experience has continued to blossom.  He has excitingly performed with the RNCM Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Verbum and the Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra.  Dylan has also been privileged enough to be the principal second violinist of both the RNCM concert orchestra and the RNCM's 2019 opera production of Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmelites".   

 

Chamber music also plays a substantial part in Dylan’s career.  Dylan is currently the second violinist of the Riedl Quartet which was founded at the RNCM during his first year.  As well as this, he is part of the Michael Haydn Orchestra soloists who represent the orchestra with chamber works and helped launch their 2019/20 season.