With the likes of international violin stars James Ehnes and Arabella Steinbacher both making appearances with Sydney Symphony Orchestra this year, it is easy to forget that we have a virtuoso of the first rank on our own doorstep.

Regulars are used to seeing Andrew Haveron in his more familiar role as Concertmaster and sometime director, but the British-born virtuoso was rising through the ranks of international soloists when he was appointed to the job in 2013, following stints leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra and World Orchestra for Peace, among others, and eight years as first violin in the ground-breaking Brodsky Quartet.

Simone Young conducts Elgar & Vaughan Williams. Photo © Jay Patel

In 2015 his SSO performance of William Walton’s concerto earned him a Helpmann Award nomination, and seven years later he was back as soloist in Benjamin Britten’s three-movement work written on the eve of World War II.

And now, armed with his 1757 Guadagnini, he is back for a trifecta of British masterpieces with the greatest of them all, Edward Elgar’s concerto written for Fritz Kreisler who said of its long poetic lines and rapid passagework – not to mention...