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Louisa Tuck

Cello, Section Leader

Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in 2006, where she won the Moir Carnegie award for best graduation recital, Louisa Tuck has established herself as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral performer.

Louisa has recorded with NAXOS and Virgin Classics and as a soloist with The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields for a Teldec CD of music by Debbie Wiseman. As a soloist she has recently appeared at the Royal Festival Hall, Spoleto Festival (Italy), St James’s Piccadilly, Soundwaves, IMAI, Leeds International Chamber Music Festival '07, Norfolk & Norwich, Marlboro and Chipping Camden Festivals. She is currently a Fellow of New Music at the Royal Academy of Music.

Louisa was principal cellist of the combined symphony orchestras of the Royal Academy of Music and the Juilliard School at the 2005 BBC Proms, in a live TV broadcast conducted by Sir Colin Davis. She was featured on a DVD of masterclasses at Wigmore Hall given by the veteran cellist Bernard Greenhouse and last Easter she performed live on the BBC as part of the Manchester Passion which has recently won two television awards. Other recent performances and projects have included Hindemith Kammermusik in St. Martin in the Fields, London, and performances of the Colleridge-Taylor Piano Quintet with the Nash Ensemble. She has broadcast live on BBC Radios 2, 3 and 4 and on Classic FM and is regularly invited to perform in the USA at the International Musical Arts Institute chamber music festival.

Louisa studied with Amanda Truelove and Robert Max at The Purcell School, and with Paul Watkins and Philip Sheppard at the Royal Academy of Music. She has received awards from the Musicians Benevolent Fund and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. She plays on a rare Italian Cello dated 1752 made by Jacobus Cordanus.

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