Effective period / Period of releases: 2010 - 2011

Welsh cellist and conductor (born 1970).

Watkins won the String section of the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1988 and was principal cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1990-1997. He still regularly performs both as a chamber musician and a soloist.

As a conductor he has worked with the Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra (1994-1998) and the Festival Orchestra at the Domaine Forget Music Festival in Quebec, Canada (1996-2000), as well as a number of BBC orchestras. In 2002 he won first prize at the Leeds Conductors' Competition.