ALBUMPath to the MoonLaura van der Heijden & Jâms Coleman
More albums from Laura van der Heijden
ALBUMPath to the MoonLaura van der Heijden & Jâms Coleman
ALBUMMozart: The Piano QuartetsFederico Colli, Francesca Dego, Timothy Ridout & Laura van der Heijden
ALBUMGolden Oldies – More Favourite EncoresBrodsky Quartet, Laura van der Heijden & Julian Jacobson
ALBUMSchubert: String Quintet, QuartettsatzBrodsky Quartet & Laura van der Heijden
ALBUMPohádka - Tales from Prague to BudapestLaura van der Heijden & Jâms Coleman
ALBUMRuiz: Behold The StarsKerenza Peacock, Huw Watkins & Laura van der Heijden
ALBUM1948: Russian Works for Cello & PianoLaura van der Heijden & Petr Limonov
About Laura van der Heijden
Artist Biography
Although cellist Laura van der Heijden (born in 1997 in West Sussex) won the BBC Young Musician competition in 2012, it was six years before she finally released her debut album, 1948. That wait is typical of the patient approach van der Heijden has adopted to developing her prodigious talent, and of her willingness to take the road less travelled. 1948 avoided mainstream repertoire by focusing on how political oppression affected the Russian composers Prokofiev, Shaporin and Myaskovsky in the postwar period. In the BBC Young Musician final, van der Heijden spurned the obvious by performing William Walton’s rarely heard Cello Concerto, and as an undergraduate she elected to study at Cambridge, avoiding the standard pathway of a specialist music school. Her singularly intelligent, heartfelt performances eventually drew major-label interest, and in 2021 she signed an exclusive contract with Chandos Records.
Hometown
West Sussex, England
Genre
Classical
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