Joy Lisney

Joy Lisney is a multi-faceted musician, combining composition with a performing career as cellist and conductor.

Her early promise was highlighted on national television when she was chosen, at the age of six, as a possible high achiever of the twenty-first century. She has since fulfilled expectations with a distinguished international career, launched by a debut series of concerts at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw aged eighteen.

As a cellist, Joy has performed in the major European concert halls including the Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Leipzig Gewandhaus as well as three consecutive sold-out recitals at London’s Southbank Centre.

A passionate advocate of new music, Joy has commissioned two new works from the Dutch composer Jan Vriend, the first of which she recorded on her debut CD in 2012. She has performed live on radio with the London Sinfonietta at the BBC Proms and opened the Park Lane Group Recital Series with a solo performance featuring two world premieres, one of which was her own composition ScordaturA. Joy has also given world premieres of works by Dame Judith Weir and Cecilia McDowall.

Joy also performs regularly in a chamber music setting and has worked with artists including the Allegri and Endellion Quartets, Michael Whight, James Gilchrist and Dame Emma Kirkby. As a soloist she has worked with conductors including Howard Williams and Sir Stephen Cleobury as well as directing concerti from the cello.

Joy plays on a Seraphin violoncello, generously lent by Beare Violins.