Laura van der Heijden best British stage musician
The Dutch-Swiss cellist Laura van der Heijden has been named Britain's best live classical musician by the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS).
The cellist won the Instrumentalist Award at the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Awards 2025. The RPS Awards have been presented annually since 1989 for live classical music creation in the United Kingdom. In 2014, the prize was awarded to Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
Laura van der Heijden was born in England to Dutch-Swiss parents and made her first public appearance as a cellist at the age of nine. She is a student of the British-Russian cellist Leonid Gorokhov and has regularly taken part in masterclasses with David Geringas, Ralph Kirshbaum and Miklós Perényi. In 2016 she was honored by the Orpheum Foundation in Switzerland. She is involved with the Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts and the Brighton Youth Orchestra.
