Oscar Perks enjoys a varied performing career playing both violin and viola. For two years he has been the second violinist of the Dante Quartet, and also works as an assistant violin teacher at the Yehudi Menuhin School while pursuing an interest in composing and arranging. Perks also leads the Perks Ensemble, a flexible chamber group he co-founded with his brother and sister, Elliott and Ursula. They have performed widely around the UK and have developed a reputation for their energetic and committed performances, playing their own arrangements of other composers alongside the great chamber music classics. They recently collaborated with Shadwell Opera for a critically acclaimed rendition of Philip Glass’ “In the Penal Colony” in the West End.
