Julia Morneweg - cellist

Since graduating with honours from the Royal College of Music in 2007, Julia Morneweg has quickly established a remarkably versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra player.
The recipient of an EMI Music Foundation Award, she made her London concerto debut in 2006 performing the Elgar Concerto at St John's Smith Square which immediately led to further engagements including a performance of Haydn's C major Concerto with the International Mahler Orchestra at the same venue as well as Elgar with the Ternopol Philharmonic Orchestra in the Ukraine. Other concerto performances have included Lalo in London and Vivaldi in Cologne. As a recitalist she has appeared around the UK, Belgium, Italy, Germany and at venues such as Oxford's Holywell Music Rooms, Trieste Opera House, the National Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum as well as the 2007 Charterhouse Festival (by invitation of renowned flautist Susan Milan) and the Tacoma International Music Festival, USA when she was only 16. Most recent festival appearances have included the Lower Machen, Uckfield and Shipley Arts Festivals.
A passionate chamber musician, she now spends much of her time performing as the cellist of the Erato Piano Trio, one of the UK’s leading young ensembles which she founded in 2005. Since winning the 2006 Anglo-Czech Trust Competition the Trio has performed at many important venues across the UK and mainland Europe such as the Martinu Hall Prague and Zurich's famous Tonhalle, performing Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time alongside distinguished Spanish clarinettist Joan Enric Lluna. They are currently members of the Concordia Foundation Young Artists Scheme, courtesy of which they performed recitals at St Martin in the Fields and St James Piccadilly. Other chamber music engagements have included tours to Croatia and Italy with the acclaimed British ensemble Fibonacci Sequence as well as chamber music recitals in Singapore. Increasingly in demand as an orchestral player, Julia has been a guest with distinguished orchestras including the Orchestra of La Scala Milan and the Northern Sinfonia.
Now a sought-after teacher and chamber music coach herself, Julia was taught by Raphael Wallfisch and Klaus Heitz at the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater Hannover before completing her degree at the Royal College of Music with Leonid Gorokhov. She also performed in numerous masterclasses and received guidance from distinguished musicians such as Lluis Claret, Bernard Greenhouse, Alexander Ivashkin, Alexander Baillie, Salvatore Accardo and the Chilingirian Quartet.