Francesca Lauri
collaborative pianist
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2024
Royal Over-Seas League
Collaborative Piano Prize Winner
2022
Somerset Song Prize
Winner
biography
Francesca was a finalist in the 2024 Kathleen Ferrier competition alongside prize winners Madeline Boreham and Charlotte Jane Kennedy. Also with Madeline, she won the LSF Schubert Prize and they performed the final recital in the 2024 Summer Festival. She recently made her BBC Radio 3 debut alongside duo partner Dafydd Jones after their performance at the Wigmore Hall in which he won the ROSL Gold Medal.
As a Young Artist, Francesca has participated in various programmes such as Leeds Lieder, Samling and Shipston Song and Oxford Song. She is passionate about French Melodie and was the Viola Tunnard Scholar during her time as a Britten Pears Young Artist where she worked closely with Susan Manoff, Veronique Gens and Audrey Hyland on French Song repertoire. She is currently a Wigmore French Song Exchange Artist.
Francesca graduated last summer with distinction from her postgraduate studies in Collaborative Piano at the Royal College of Music where she was the recipient of the Ian Evans Lombe Scholarship, studying with Simon Lepper, Kathron Sturrock and Roger Vignoles.
She was supported generously by the Countess of Munster trust and won the pianist prizes in the Lieder competition, the Lies Askonas, the Joan Chissell Schumann competition and received 2nd prize in the English Song competition.
In 2022, she graduated from Trinity Laban,under the tutelage of Sergio de Simone, with First-Class Honours, receiving the TCL Silver Medal for piano studies and the David Gosling Prize for Piano Accompaniment. Francesca is the current Lord and Lady Lurgan collaborative piano fellow for the RCM vocal department.