Laura will perform Elgar's Cello Concerto with the Worthing Philharmonic on 25th. March 2012

Laura was born in England as the youngest daughter of a Dutch father and a Swiss mother. Very early on it was obvious that she had a strong relationship to music. She started to play the recorder when she was four, soon followed by the piano, and when she was six, she began learning the cello with Marina Logie, later with Michal Kaznowski.

She joined the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music aged eight, and passed her grade 8 ABRSM exams for piano and cello with distinction when she was ten.

Since late 2008 Laura is being taught the cello by Leonid Gorokhov (Hochschule für Musik, Theater & Medien in Hanover, Germany). Her piano teacher is Emily Jeffrey at RCM.

Laura's first public performance was as a nine-year-old with the Jupiter Chamber Orchestra conducted by Howard Moody. She has participated in many competitions in the UK, Holland and Switzerland, winning numerous prizes. In 2010 she won "Erster Preis mit Auszeichnung" (full marks) and a special prize in the final of the Swiss National Youth Music Competition, which led to her performing the Boccherini Cello Concerto in G with ZKO at the Tonhalle in Zurich in January 2011.
She is the 2011 winner of the Marjorie Humby competition at the Royal College of Music.

Laura lives in Sussex where she attends her local secondary school (Sackville in East Grinstead) and enjoys as much of a teenage social life as her commitment to music allows for.

Laura plays a 1987 cello by Colin Irving.

Recent Comments:

“...You are an extremely promising young artist...” (Susie Meszaros, adjudicator Ealing Festival 2011) 

“...You are communicating to your audience. You are telling us your story and we are right there with you - a gift that you have...” (Gill and David Johnston, adjudicators Marjorie Humby, 2011)