Jordan Brooks

I am very grateful for the kindness and generosity of the LSO scholarship. I am thrilled to work and learn with mentors from an orchestra that I have looked up to for many years.

Jordan Brooks is a South African violinist building an international career as a soloist and chamber musician. He performs on a Storioni violin and is currently studying at the Royal College of Music, where he studies with professor, Radu Blidar.

Jordan has received recognition through several international competitions. In 2025, he won First Prize at the Joseph Bologne International Violin Competition. He was also a First Prize winner in both the Strings Category and Commonwealth Final of the Royal Over-Seas League Competition in 2024, which led to his Wigmore Hall debut. Jordan is also a laureate of the Zhuhai International Mozart Competition in China and was a participant at the Enescu International Violin Competition.

He has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra and the Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra; and has appeared at venues including Fairfield Halls, Bridgewater Hall, St George’s Bristol, Brighton Dome and Cape Town City Hall.

As a chamber musician, Jordan has performed at the AWE Festival in New Zealand and Klosters Music Festival in Switzerland and has collaborated with artists including Kumi Matsuo, Benjamin Baker, Anthony Marwood and Yura Lee. His recent performances have taken him across the UK and internationally, with an expanding programme of solo and chamber engagements.

Jordan is generously supported by the the Musicians’ Company Awards, the London Symphony Orchestra Conservatoire Scholarship and the Sir Peter and Lady Walters Scholarship. Previous support has included the Ackerman Foundation, the ABRSM and the Wayne Sleep Foundation.