(From Belfast)
Philip Whiteway, who was born in Manchester, took up the violin as soon as he left school, and studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music under Arthur Catterall, subsequently taking his diploma with distinction. For four seasons he played in the first violins of the Halle Orchestra, and for the last eight years he has been a member of the BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra, of which he became leader in 1931. Earlier in his career he studied chamber music under the late Dr. Brodsky, and was one of the original members of the Hirsch String Quartet.