Nathaniel Vallois is the Senior Violin Lecturer & Tutor at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and is on the violin and chamber music staff at the Purcell School of Music. Besides his teaching and concert activities in the U.K., he has performed, broadcast and given masterclasses in the the U.S.A, China, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Israel, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Romania, Turkey and South Africa.

Born in Paris, he later studied in Israel and in London, his teachers including Miriam Solovieff, Yair Kless and Itzhak Rashkovsky, and he received further musical inspiration and guidance from Ruggiero Ricci and Camilla Wicks. He has performed concertos by Bach, Bartok, Beethoven, Berg, Brahms, Britten, Bruch, Dvorak, Glazunov, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Szymanowski, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Walton and a wide array of recital programs. He was a founder member of the London Archduke Piano Trio and has performed with many chamber music groups.

He has recorded a recital disc of French music entitled Beau Soir and a disc of chamber music by Hugh Wood on Toccata Classics, which was awarded 5 stars by the BBC Music Magazine. As an expert on historical artists and recordings, he is a contributor to the Strad magazine and consultant for record companies. He also runs annual violin courses in Cornwall and in France.