"… playing with an aplomb and rapport, a definition and vitality, an insight and ardour that many cellists better known and more experienced would do well to honour."
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Cambridge University Composer in Residence
Joy is delighted to have been awarded the post of Composer in Residence at Cambridge University Music Society for the 2016-17 season. …
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Welcome
Joy Lisney is one of the most exciting young string players to emerge in recent years. Her early promise was highlighted by Carlton Television when they chose her, at the age of six, as a possible high achiever of the twenty-first century.
She has since fulfilled expectations with a distinguished international career, launched by a debut series of two concerts at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in 2012.
In autumn 2014 the Arditti Quartet gave the premiere of her most recent work, Apparitions - click here to listen.
In 2012 she recorded of a disc of Chopin, Vriend and Lutoslawski at the Leipzig Gewandhaus - listen to sample tracks >.
Joy plays on a Seraphin violoncello generously lent by Beare Violins and is supported by the Hattori Foundation.
Read Joy's full biography >.
Concerts
15 October 2017
Pôle d'Animation Culturelle, Le Buisson de Cadouin, FranceBach - Chaconne in D minor (arr. Joy Lisney)
Beethoven - Sonata in A, op. 69
Lisney - ScordaturA
Brahms - Sonata in D, op. 7817 November 2017
St. John's Divinity School, CambridgeCambridge University New Music Concert
Judith Weir - Three Chorales for cello and piano
8pm19 November 2017
King's College Chapel, CambridgeJoy conducts the Seraphin Chamber Orchestra
Arensky - Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky
Schumann - Cello Concerto (Soloist - Laura Van der Heijden)
Strauss - Metamorphosen for 23 Solo Strings
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