#49 Louisa Lam, Sarah Carvalho-Dubost, Andrew Thurgood
This week we welcome Louisa Lam (pianist) and Reza musicians Andrew Thurgood (violinist) and Sarah Carvalho-Dubost (cellist) to our Midday Music series to perform one of the greatest pieces in the trio repertoire, Beethoven's Archduke Trio.
Louisa Lam is respected as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist, and recent credits include the televised string final of BBC Young Musician of the Year. She is currently a staff accompanist at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, in both the Senior and Junior departments.
Louisa studied at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Department before gaining a First Class Honours degree in Music at King’s College London and a Masters Degree from the GSMD, where she studied with Gordon Back, supported by a scholarship from the Worshipful Company of Cutlers. Her recent appearances include: Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, Auditori Winterthur (Barcelona), Musica Eboræ (Portugal) and on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune.
She is the répétiteur for the St John of Jerusalem Festival Chorus in Hackney and has a thriving teaching practice, both at home in London and at Christ’s Hospital School in West Sussex. Louisa is also an accompanist and performance coach for the Music4People summer school in North Yorkshire, and ProCorda residential string training camps.