Ronald Birks

British violinist, born 1945. He began taking violin lessons at the age of ten and became a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in 1959. Between 1966 and 1969 he was a student at the Royal Manchester College of Music, where he studied the quartet repertoire with Alexandre Moskowsky. He became a member of the Northern Sinfonia Orchestra in 1969, and spent two years with them.