Toby Cook & Victor Lim

Toby Cook - viola
Victor Lim - piano 

Toby Cook performs internationally as a chamber musician and soloist. He is winner of the Małopolska competition, the Barbirolli Prize at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and the Len Lickorish Memorial Prize at the Royal Overseas League International Strings Competition. Toby is a founding member of Ensemble Textura, a Berlin-based experimental string ensemble which aims to bring a fresh perspective to well-known chamber music works, as well as explore unknown repertoire and folk music.

As a musician with tireless curiosity for all genres of music, Victor Lim’s interest in new music has led to recent work with Thomas Adès, Graham Fitkin and Stephen Hough. He has made a studio recording of Graham Fitkin’s Granite with BBC Philharmonic and has performed with Manchester Collective, Manchester Camerata, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Chinke! Orchestra and Royal Northern Sinfonia. In 2024, Victor recorded his first album with music by Charles Villiers Stanford in the composer’s centenary year, to be released by NAXOS in 2025.