Gemma Sharples is a violinist and chamber musician who performs with various ensembles around the UK and internationally. In 2018 she was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of her contribution to the music profession.

Since 2019 Gemma has been a member of London Mozart Players. She is part of the second violin section, regularly sitting co-principal and principal, and also works as a freelance musician with other orchestras including 12 ensemble, London Sinfonietta and London Contemporary Orchestra.

For ten years Gemma was also the violinist of the Albany Piano Trio who specialise in the performance and promotion of music by female composers. They commissioned works by composers such as Charlotte Bray, Judith Bingham and Josephine Stephenson and curated a sold out festival of ‘Women in Music’ at the Royal College of Music in 2014. In 2016 their concert for International Women’s Day was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

Gemma studied music at Christ Church college, Oxford, followed by a masters degree in violin performance at the Royal Academy of Music where she was awarded the first Howard Davies Scholarship. Her teachers were Richard Deakin, Remus Azoitei and Yumi Sasaki.

She plays a violin made in Naples by Vincenzo Sannino in 1911.