Luba Tunnicliffe
Viola
Luba Tunnicliffe has performed solo recitals at the Royal Festival Hall and St John's Smith Square, and made her debut as concerto soloist with the Philharmonia Orchestra in June 2016. She won the Guildhall's Max and Peggy Morgan Award with the Bartok Viola Concerto and was viola soloist in Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with Alexander Janiczek and the Guildhall Chamber Orchestra in Milton Court Concert Hall, Barbican. She is a recipient of the Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Artists through Making Music UK.
She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno and Pavlo Beznosiuk, and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin with Simone Jandl. Previously, she studied with Jacky Woods at the Junior Royal Academy of Music.
Luba performs regularly throughout the UK with her two award-winning chamber groups - the Pelléas Ensemble and the Ruisi String Quartet. They have both received awards from the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Tunnell Trust, and have appeared on BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune'.