British cellist Betsy Taylor has recorded with famous pop artists and film composers, toured abroad professionally as a soloist, recorded solo contemporary works, recorded on BBC Radio 3 and been invited as Guest Principal Cello with many of the country's leading symphony and chamber orchestras.
Betsy began playing the cello at the age of six and in 1990 became a student at the Royal Northern College of Music on the Joint Course, studying with Leonid Gorokhov, Ralph Kirschbaum, Moray Welsh and Steven Isserlis.
Four years later she graduated from the RNCM with a Diploma in Professional Performance, and a Bachelor of Music Degree from Manchester University, and was awarded the John Barbirolli Memorial Award, the Procter Gregg Performance Prize and the Hargreaves Music Award.
After leaving the RNCM Betsy was a finalist in the Pierre Fournier Award, performing in the Wigmore Hall and was Principal Cello of the Brunel Ensemble. In 1996 she was awarded her debut BBC Radio 3 recital as a finalist in the network's Young Artists Forum series. She appeared as soloist in the Brighton Festival and toured with the South Carolina Philharmonic, USA, also as soloist.
In January 2000 Betsy became Assistant Principal Cello of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and has since toured to the Slovak Republic, Austria, Croatia, Spain and Sweden.
Betsy is the founder cellist of the highly acclaimed Glasgow String Quartet and teaches at both the RSAMD and Strathclyde University. She plays a Joseph Hill cello made in 1770.
www.betsytaylor.co.uk
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