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.

In 2009, Laura gave a live solo broadcast for BBC Radio 3’s In Tune and her debut recital for the British Harpsichord Society at Handel House where she has performed regularly since. Laura has given recitals on the historic instruments at Fenton House, Finchcocks and Hatchlands. She gave her first performance at St. Cecelia's Hall for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2011. Laura was selected to participate in the First International Volkonsky Harpsichord Competition in Moscow, February 2010, where she was the only British harpsichordist to perform. She has recently played in the Musica Antiqua Festival, Bruges and at the Little Missenden Festival where she performed ‘The Iberian Harpsichord’ on a newly restored 1763 Florentine instrument by Migliai. Forthcoming projects include the release of her first solo CD (Garat Records) in 2012 and giving the world première of a work by Oliver Davis that has been written especially for her.

Laura performs in duos with recorder player Christopher Orton, mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley and violinist Helen Kruger. She has played with the Little Baroque Company with whom she has given festival performances, education and community workshops and has broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Laura 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.

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, and has given harpsichord masterclasses at Finchcocks and childrens' concerts at Handel House.

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