Formed at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2011, The Pelléas Ensemble won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Henderson Chamber Ensemble Award in 2018; the 2017 Elias Fawcett Award for Outstanding Chamber Ensemble at the Royal Overseas League competition; and in 2016 they won both the Grand Prize and the Audience Prize in the St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competition, and were awarded a place on the prestigious Tillett Trust Young Artists’ Programme.
Their Wigmore Hall debut was praised for its “captivating vitality” and “effortlessness and delicacy” (Seen and Heard International). They have appeared live on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’, and have given numerous recitals in London and around the UK. They have been praised for creating an immediate and intimate connection with their audiences, and perform much of their repertoire from memory.
Luba Tunnicliffe (viola) has performed solo recitals at London’s Royal Festival Hall and St John’s Smith Square, and made her debut as concerto soloist with the Philharmonia Orchestra in June 2016. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno and Pavlo Beznosiuk, and at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin with Simone Jandl.
Enjoying a busy concert schedule as a chamber musician playing a wide range of repertoire, Luba has performed at the BBC Proms and the Barbican Sound Unbound Festival as Principal Viola of the 12 Ensemble. She is a member of the Ruisi Quartet who recently performed at the Wigmore Hall and participated in the prestigious Banff International String Quartet Competition 2019.
She has played as a guest associate principal with the Britten Sinfonia and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and regularly freelances with other groups such as the Aurora Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Henry Roberts (flute) studied as an undergraduate at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Sarah Newbold, after which, he moved on to the postgraduate Orchestral Artistry programme, in association with the London Symphony Orchestra. During this time he was generously sponsored by the Leverhulme Arts Trust as a Guildhall School scholar.
As an award-winning chamber musician, Henry has appeared a number of times on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ and has played in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Buckingham Palace. He regularly works with orchestras including the Hallé, Sinfonia Cymru and 12 Ensemble and recently recorded the solo flute parts for Trevor Jones’ (Notting Hill, Labyrinth) new film score for To Tokyo at Abbey Road Studios.
Joining violist Luba Tunnicliffe and flautist Henry Roberts for this concert is the acclaimed Welsh harpist Anne Denholm. Anne is one of the leading British harpists of her generation and served as Official Harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales from 2015-2019. Anne studied at Newnham College Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music in London. She received her Master’s with distinction, studying under Karen Vaughan, and in 2020 she was elected an Associate of the RAM.
She is in demand as a soloist and chamber musician, and is a founding member of award-winning contemporary quartet, The Hermes Experiment. In November 2021 they were awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award, and in 2019 won the Royal Over-Seas League Mixed Ensemble Prize. They have released two albums on Delphian Records – Here we are, and Song, both to critical acclaim.
Anne freelances with orchestras and choirs across England, most recently working with the BBC Concert Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra. She has performed and recorded with The Choir of St John’s College Cambridge, The Temple Church Choir and Ely Cathedral Girls’ Choir.
Anne holds teaching positions at Eton College and the Dragon School and St Edward’s School, Oxford, in addition to her private teaching. She also hugely enjoys working as an Instrumental Tutor for the National Children’s Orchestras of Great Britain and National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.