The winner of the 2009 Broadwood Harpsichord Competition, Laura Tivendale graduated in 2007 with first class honours and an LRAM from the Royal Academy of Music where she studied harpsichord with Virginia Black. Laura won the Harold Samuel Bach Prize two years running, as well as receiving the Howard Carr Memorial Prize in 2007 and a Foundation Award for general excellence in 2006. Laura enjoys playing a wide variety of repertoire both as a soloist and chamber musician and has made a special study of the virtuoso works of Scarlatti and Rameau.

Laura is the harpsichordist of the Little Baroque Company, with whom she has given festival performances, education and community workshops and has broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Laura works with the recorder player Christopher Orton, mezzo soprano Anna Huntley and violinist Helen Kruger. She has also played in the Academy's Period Instrument Baroque Orchestra, with the New London Soloist Orchesta, the Capelle Baroque Orchestra, Femusa String Ensemble and the Stamford Chamber Orchestra. Laura recently gave her debut recital for the British Harpsichord Society at Handel House and a live solo broadcast for Radio 3's 'In Tune' programme. She has performed at Fenton House and will be giving solo recitals on the historic instruments at Hatchlands, Finchcocks and the Russell Collection during 2010. Laura was selected to particpate in the First International Volkonsky Harpsichord Competition in Moscow, February 2010, where she was the only British harpsichordist to perform. She has recently performed in the Musica Antiqua Festival, Bruges.

Alongside performing, Laura dedicates much of her time to music education, about which she is particularly passionate. She teaches at the Junior Royal Academy of Music and at Queen's College London. Laura has worked with many distinguished musicians including Laurence Cummings, Nicolette Moonen, Simon Standage, Catherine Mackintosh and Monica Huggett and has participated in masterclasses with Kenneth Gilbert and Trevor Pinnock.