Hugo Svensson is currently pursuing instrumental and academic studies at the Royal College
of Music in London. He is an RCM Scholar studying with Professor Yuri Zhislin. In addition to
his viola studies, Hugo started conducting studies at the Royal College of Music in
September 2024.

Born in Lund, Sweden, Hugo moved to Stockholm to study viola playing with Nina and Oleg
Balabine at the upper secondary education of the specialist music school Lilla Akademien.
Hugo spent the third year of his upper secondary education at Lars-Erik Larsson gymnasiet
in Lund and graduated with a diploma in Social Science and Music. Upon graduation, Hugo
studied Philosophy at Lund University for half a year, while also completing an upper
secondary diploma in the Natural Sciences and a course in Baroque Music at the Malmö
Academy of Music. Further reflection on education, knowledge and other existential
questions however, led to further music studies at Lilla Akademiens Pre-College education.

Throughout his activities as a violist, Hugo has had the opportunity to interact with
numerous eminent educators and performers including, Priya Mitchell, Hugo Ticciati, Ian
Bostridge, Tonu Kaljuste, Antonello Farulli, Simon Rowland-Jones, Nathan Braude among
others. This has occurred through educational, orchestral, chamber music and soloist
activities. Past performance highlights include concerts with the New Generation Symphony
Orchestra and O/modernt Chamber Orchestra New Generation Symphony Orchestra both
directed by Hugo Ticciati in Berliner Konzerthaus and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. Other
notable performance high points include solo performance in Grünewaldsalen, Stockholm
Concert Hall and chamber music performance at Berwaldhallen Stockholm. In the near
future, Hugo is very much looking forward to developing and refining the lens through
which he regards the world through his academic and instrumental studies at the Royal
College of Music.