This viola/piano duo who studied at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama are supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.
Luba Tunnicliffe (viola)
Luba Tunnicliffe studied with Jacky Woods at Junior RAM, where she won the concerto prize, and with David Takeno and Pavlo Beznosiuk at the Guildhall School of Music, graduating with a first class honours degree and winning the Max and Peggy Morgan Award with the Bartók Viola Concerto. She has performed recitals at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund series and at St John's Smith Square as a Park Lane Group Young Artist. In June 2016 she made her début as concerto soloist with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Her flute, viola and harp trio, the Pelléas Ensemble, won first prize in the 2016 St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competition and the 2015 British Harp Chamber Music Competition. It made its Wigmore Hall début last November in the Tillett Trust Young Artists' Platform and appeared in the PLG Young Artists Series this April.
In 2014,Luba was chosen to be on the LSO String Scheme; since then she has played with the OAE and the Britten Sinfonia. She has also appeared twice on BBC Radio 3's In Tune, with Hannah Watson and with the Pelléas Ensemble.
Luba has been the grateful recipient of many awards including from the Stephen Bell Charitable Trust.
Edward Liddall (piano)
Edward Liddall is a young British pianist, in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and song accompanist. He has performed at venues and festivals across the UK and Europe both as a solo pianist, and as a chamber musician, including at The Barbican; The Wigmore Hall; The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; and New Philharmonic Hall, Bratislava.
He was a 2017 YCAT Finalist at The Wigmore Hall as a collaborative pianist, he won the accompaniment prize at the 2015 Maureen Lehane awards, and was a finalist in the 2015 Royal Overseas League Competition as a solo pianist. Recent highlights include a playing and acting role in Iain Burnside’s play Why Does The Queen Die? at the Oxford Lieder Festival and in London, a performance of Schubert’s Winterreise as part of Graham Johnson’s Song Guild, touring with Où donc est tombée ma jeunesse? in France. Several radio broadcasts (on BBC Radio 3 and Dutch National Radio). He has a keen interest in new music, and has recorded several works from the ABRSM volume, Spectrum for Piano Duet, with Thalia Myers. Forthcoming plans include performances across the UK, as well as concerts in Germany, Italy, Holland, and Israel.
Edward has had the opportunity to take part in masterclasses with artists such as Susan Tomes, Ferenc Rados, Ralf Gothoni, Graham Johnson, Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray and Emanuel Krasovsky, and in 2016 he attended IMS Prussia Cove, where, together with cellist Leander Kippenberg, he took lessons with Thomas Ades.
He has completed a Junior Fellowship at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama under the tutelage of Caroline Palmer, having previously completed a Masters degree (with distinction) there. Prior to this, he studied with Thalia Myers both at the Royal College of Music, Junior Department, and as an undergraduate at King’s College, Cambridge. He is grateful to The Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers for supporting his studies at Guildhall; and to The Solti Foundation for providing a bursary to attend IMS Prussia Cove.
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