About me

Hello and welcome. My name is Joy Lisney and I am a cellist and composer.

I have enjoyed collaborations with artists including Dame Emma Kirkby, Alexander Baillie, Howard Williams and the Wihan Quartet and also perform regularly in duo with my father James Lisney. Venues for duo recitals have included the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Queen’s Hall Edinburgh, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and St. John’s Smith Square. In 2014, I completed my undergraduate studies at Cambridge University and embarked upon a Beethoven Grand Tour that encompassed Beethoven cycles at major venues across Europe including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Edinburgh Queen’s Hall, St George’s Bristol and a sold-out performance at the Southbank Centre.

I am a passionate advocate of new music and in 2013 I was chosen by Jan Vriend to perform his magnum opus for violoncello and piano, Anatomy of Passion, to celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday. In summer of 2014 I performed as a London Sinfonietta Emerging Artist at the BBC Proms in a concert broadcast on Radio 3 to celebrate the 80th birthday of Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies.

Many of my recent compositions are available for listening on Soundcloud and include the string quartet Apparitions, premiered by the Arditti Quartet in 2014.

I have recently completed my Master’s in composition at the Clare College Cambridge, where most of my spare time is spent pursuing my other primary interests: triathlon and cooking!

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