Representing Making Music
Programme
Bach arr. Allen Chen – Concerto in D BWV972
Enescu – Légende
Castérède – Sonatine
- Allegro energico
- Andantino
- Rondo allegro giocoso
Pritchard – Seven halts on the Somme
- The Grand Mine
- Trônes Wood
- Flatiron Copse
- Guillemont to Ginchy
- The Sucrerie: Longueval
- Pozières: The Moulin
- Warlencourt Ridge
Performer
Matilda Lloyd, 22, graduated with a First from Trinity College, Cambridge, where she was admitted as a Senior Scholar of the College in 2016. She is now studying her Masters degree with Mark David at the Royal Academy of Music where she holds the Winifred Agnes Disney Award.
Matilda won the inaugural Eric Aubier International Trumpet Competition in Rouen in October 2017. Beating 53 other contestants of all ages from around the world, she won First Prize including her international debut on tour with the Opera Orchestra of Rouen in Spring 2019. Matilda made her solo debut at the BBC Proms in July 2016, playing the third movement of Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic under the baton of Alpesh Chauhan at the two Ten Pieces II Proms. In promotion of these Proms, Matilda performed live on BBC Radio 3 In Tune Proms Special on the opening night of the Proms and appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. Matilda has just been selected as one of Making Music UK’s Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists 2017-19. She is the current recipient of the Sidney Perry Brass Award by the Philharmonia Martin Musical Scholarship Fund and joined the Philharmonia Orchestra on tour in Klosters in December 2016. Matilda is a Park Lane Group Young Artist 2017 and opened the Park Lane Group Spring Series at St. John’s Smith Square with a recital of contemporary trumpet music in April 2017. She will make her Wigmore Hall Recital debut in conjunction with the Park Lane Group in July 2018. Matilda is also a Concordia Foundation Artist and she has performed as a soloist with the London Mozart Players at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London.
In 2014, Matilda won the Brass Category of the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Award. Following these competitions, Matilda performed concertos with the BBC Concert Orchestra for Friday Night is Music Night on BBC Radio 2 and with the Cory Brass Band at the European Brass Band Championships Gala Concert 2014. Matilda was the first trumpeter to win the Junior Guildhall Lutine Prize in 2013 and has performed many concertos and recitals throughout Britain, some as the result of winning regional competitions in Croydon, Woking, Guildford and Marlowe (Canterbury), and some as part of festivals such as the Lower Machen Festival (South Wales), Deal Music Festival and Sevenoaks Summer Festival.
Matilda was Principal Trumpet of the European Union Youth Orchestra in 2016 and 2017, previously holding the same position in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain from 2012-14, winning the John Fletcher Brass Prize in her final year. She also played in the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in September 2016 for the Classic FM Live concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
