Madeleine Ridd

Madeleine began playing the cello when she was four, achieving Grade 8 Distinction at thirteen and ABRSM Diploma Distinction at seventeen. Between 1999 and 2004 she was a student at the Royal College of Music Junior Department, where she studied with Christine Livingstone. She has attended many Chamber Music courses, both in the UK and Italy, the latter run by Hugh Maguire, and in 2005 her quartet was selected for an international masterclass with Mtislav Rostropovich.

During her time as a Music student at Merton College Oxford, Madeleine performed in numerous orchestral and chamber concerts, as well as conducting Merton College Orchestra and singing in Merton Chapel Choir. She has attended masterclasses with members of the Allegri quartet and City of London Sinfonia, and has premiered new works by Oxford students with Ensemble Isis. She has played as a concerto soloist in Bristol, East Anglia and Sussex. In November 2006 she won the Oxford University Philharmonia's annual Concerto Competition, and performed the Elgar Cello Concerto in March in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre, and then on tour with the orchestra at the Musikverein in Vienna, Easter 2007.

Madeleine is now continuing her performance studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where she studies with Mats Lidstrom.

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