Foundling Museum: Fellow Lunchtime Recital

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Italian clarinetist Lucia Porcedda has won prizes at national and international competitions, including the YAMAHA Music Foundation of Europe Scholarship. She has played with majors orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and English National Ballet. She was on trial for the associate principal clarinet position with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and clarinetist at Southbank Sinfonia 2022/2023.

Having graduating with honours from the conservatoire of her hometownCagliari (Italy), she then studied with Alessandro Carbonare at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and with Paul Meyer, Christelle Pochet and Carjez Gerretsen in Paris. Over the years, she has participated in master-classes around the world with prominent musicians including Romain Guyot, Nicolas Baldeyrou, Calogero Palermo, Herman Stefansson, Florent Héau, Michel Lethiec and Andrew Marriner. Concert engagements have included performances in concert halls in the UK, Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Finland and Netherlands.

In 2022, she completed her Master degree with Distinctions at the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied with Christopher Richards, Timothy Lines, Benjamin Mellefont, Chi-Yu Mo and Laurent Ben Slimane.

Lucia has always cultivated a great passion for chamber music. In Italy, she founded Duo Sardo with pianist Federico Battista Melis, with whom she performed at the Vatican museums in Rome, the Italian Cultural Institute in Lausanne (Switzerland) and music festivals throughout Sardinia. Furthermore with the association “Dimensione Danza” she periodically collaborates with musicians and dancers, creating and performing works exploring the relationship between sound and movement.

In the academic year 2023/2024, she was a Hogwood Scholar and was selected for the BBC Symphony Orchestra Pathway Scheme during her Artist Diploma course at the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied with Peter Sparks, Richard Hosford and Paul Richards.