Oliver Coates attained the highest degree result in the Royal Academy of Music's history and went on to achieve an MPhil with distinction at Oxford (New College). He performs and records as a solo and chamber musician at major venues and festivals around the world. He appears with the Radius, London Sinfonietta, Mira Calix and has written and performed with Massive Attack. Olly was a winner at the 2007 Kirckman Concert Society Auditions in London and at the 2006 Philip & Dorothy Green Young Concert Artist Auditions.