Laura announced as artist in residence at the 2025 Lammermuir festival
Jun 2025
Laura will make six appearances as both soloist and ensemble musician throughout the festival, including performances with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, pianist Jâms Coleman, the Maxwell String Quartet and chamber partners Max Baillie, Marcel Comendant, and Misha Mullov-Abbado as part of a specially curated ‘Dances and Duos with Friends’ concert. Another highlight of the festival will be Laura’s performance alongside violinist Maria Wloszczowska (Lammermuir’s outgoing artist-in-residence) of Brahms’ Double Concerto with conductor Dinis Sousa and the Royal Northern Sinfonia.
Laura presented with 2025 Royal Philharmonic Society instrumentalist award.
Feb 2025
For the outstanding quality and scope of the performances to a live or digital audience, and the work in any context, of an individual performer on any instrument in the UK.
Supported by ISM, the Independent Society of Musicians
‘In everything she does, cellist Laura van der Heijden embodies excellence and integrity, fulfilled with heart. You’ll hear it in her superb concerto debut disc and the luminous Path to the Moon she recorded for Chandos this year. It’s in her boundless collaborations with Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective and as a Kings Place Artist in Focus. It radiated at the BBC Proms in Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Earth, Sea and Air written specially for Laura, showcasing an artist truly in her prime.’
New Ways of Thinking
Jun 2024
“Although British cellist Laura van der Heijden is well versed in live performance and studio recording, she is still discovering new facets of her musical personality as Toby Deller finds out.”
Click the link to read her interview covering her childhood, education, recording Cheryl Frances-Hoads’s “Earth, Sea, Air”, Walton and Bridge, her doubts, thoughts and plans and much more.
“Earth, Sea, Air”
release 31st May 2024
May 2024
Release of Laura van der Heijden’s first concerto album with Chandos Records: Earth, Sea, Air. The album consists of three works; Frank Bridge‘s Oration, William Walton‘s Cello Concerto, and the premiere recording of Cheryl Frances-Hoad‘s composition “Earth, Sea, Air”.
The disc was recorded with BBCSSO and conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth.
“Van der Heijden is mesmerising… Proof, if any were ever needed, that the best things come to those who wait.”
Charlotte Gardner, gramophone