Charlie Lovell-Jones debuted at a sold-out Royal Festival Hall aged 15. He has since soloed with major orchestras internationally, broadcasting on radio and television. As concertmaster of the mutli-award-winning Sinfonia of London (SoL) he has performed at the BBC Proms and recorded several CDs, garnering critical acclaim from Classic FM and Gramophone Magazine. He found success in international competitions including the Sendai 2019, Shanghai Isaac Stern 2020, and Joachim 2021 Competitions.
In 2020, Charlie graduated from Oxford University with a Gibbs Prize in Music and received a Bicentenary Scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music, where he graduated in 2022 with the Strings Postgraduate Prize. He studied for over ten years with Rodney Friend MBE, and from 2022-2024, with Augustin Hadelich at the Yale School of Music.
He is a J&A Beare Violin Society Artist, and he won the Hattori Foundation, Harriet Cohen, John Fussell, Drake Calleja and Countess of Munster Trusts’ awards. He has enjoyed masterclasses with Ida Haendel, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Vadim Repin, Menahem Praessler, Pinchas Zukerman, James Ehnes, Leonidas Kavakos, and most recently, Ida Kavafian at the Lincoln Center.
Charlie is in regular demand as a soloist across the UK and beyond, and has performed at venues including Birmingham Symphony Hall, the Snape Maltings, Smith Square Hall, the Wigmore Hall, and the Konzerthaus Berlin. He frequently tours and records with the Sinfonia of London, and enjoys chamber music and guest leading as well.
He plays a fine 1777 G.B. Guadagnini violin, generously loaned by a benefactor.
Book a table for pre-concert dining
Acapela Studio provides pre-concert dining between 6.00pm and 7.30pm from our pizza oven. To view the current menu visit here.
Please purchase your concert tickets first before booking a table. We will not accept any table bookings that do not have a corresponding ticket purchase.
Then return to the event page to book your table, by selecting the date of your event, number of diners and time you require table. The times shown are the only vacancies left. Please complete your email and phone number as this is required to ensure your table is allocated. You will receive confirmation of your booking by email and text.
If on the date you have chosen no tables are available - no times will be shown and the booking system will revert you back to todays date - PLEASE ENSURE YOU BOOK THE CORRECT DATE!
PLEASE NOTE THE VENUE RELIES ON THE INCOME FROM DINING TO ENSURE WE CAN BOOK ALL THE GREAT ACTS PERFORMING.
Income from the provision of pizzas is very important to the venue and if you have booked a table it is a requirement that all people sat at tables order food - a salad alternative is available to pizzas. Please do ensure that all individuals will be ordering on your table - if this is not the case please cancel your table so others who are looking to dine can do so. Our apologies to raise this but recently we have had many tables (some very large) where less than 50% of those sat at tables have ordered food. Financially this is a real problem to the sustainability of the venue.
- All seating at tables must purchase a pizza - so please do not book a table if everyone is not eating.
- Please ensure that you arrive 10 minutes before the time slot allocated to order your pizzas prior to your booking time.
- Tables not seated within 15 minutes of the allocated time may be lost and allocated to other audience members wishing to order pizzas.
- If you wish to book a table for 6 or more please email info@acapela.co.uk
Please note that all of our pizzas are made fresh to order. It may take up to 45 minutes to be served during busy periods.
IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO BOOK A TABLE YOU CAN STILL ORDER PIZZAS ON THE NIGHT (USUALLY ON BUSY NIGHTS NO LATER THAN 7.15PM) AND WE WILL SERVE THEM TO YOU WHEREVER YOU ARE SAT IN THE VENUE - IN A PIZZA BOX.