Representing Making Music

Programme

Schubert – Arpeggione Sonata D.821
Rebecca Clarke – Morpheus
Hindemith – Sonata Op 25 No 4

Performers

Luba Tunnicliffe Viola
Edward Liddall Piano

Luba Tunnicliffe has performed solo recitals at the Royal Festival Hall and St John’s Smith Square, and made her debut as concerto soloist with the Philharmonia Orchestra in June 2016. She won the Guildhall’s Max and Peggy Morgan Award with the Bartok Viola Concerto and was viola soloist in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with Alexander Janiczek and the Guildhall Chamber Orchestra in Milton Court Concert Hall, Barbican.
She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno and Pavlo Beznosiuk, and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin with Simone Jandl. Previously, she studied with Jacky Woods at the Junior Royal Academy of Music.
Her Flute, Viola and Harp trio, the Pelléas Ensemble won the Royal Philharmonic Society
Henderson Award and the ROSL Elias Fawcett Award for Outstanding Ensemble in 2017, and the 2016 St Martin-in-the-fields Chamber Music Competition. Luba is also a member of the awardwinning Ruisi String Quartet; founded in 2012 by brothers Alessandro and Max, the quartet perform regularly throughout the UK and Europe. The quartet are grateful for the long-term loan of a specially made set of matching instruments by Harris & Sheldon of London.

Edward Liddall is a young British pianist, active as a solo pianist, chamber musician and song accompanist. He has performed at venues across the UK and Europe both as a solo pianist, and as a chamber musician, including at The Barbican, The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Wigmore Hall, and St Martin in the Fields. 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 3 broadcasts, and winning The Accompaniment Prize at the 2015 Maureen Lehane vocal Awards at The Wigmore Hall. He has a keen interest in new music, and has recorded several works from the ABRSM volume, Spectrum for Piano Duet, with Thalia Myers, and a tour of Holland and Slovakia with Dutch violinist, Amarins Wierdsma.
He has recently 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 atGuildhall; and to The Solti Foundation for providing a bursary to attend IMS Prussia Cove.