Lucia Porcedda clarinet
Federico Battista Melis piano

Programme:
Gioachino Rossini — Introduzione, tema e variazioni
Maria Theresia von Paradis — Sicilienne
Cecile Hartog — Chateaux en espagne 1&2
Clemence de Grandval — Invocation & Air Slave

This concert takes place at St Bartholomew’s Church, Haslemere, GU27 1BP.

Tickets are available to purchase via the Tickets page.

Lucia and Federico perform courtesy of the Philharmonia Orchestra and arranged by HHH Concerts.

Italian clarinettist Lucia Porcedda is one of MMSF PHILHARMONIA 2024/2025 Fellows. She has played with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Opera House, English National Opera, English National Ballet, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Brighton Philharmonic, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Chromatica, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Sinfonia Cymru and Knussen Chamber Orchestra. She was on trial for the associate principal clarinet position with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and clarinettist at Southbank Sinfonia 2022/2023.

Having graduating with honours from the conservatoire of Cagliari (Italy), she then studied with Alessandro Carbonare in Rome and Paul Meyer, Christelle Pochet and Carjez Gerretsen in Paris. Over the years, she has participated in masterclasses around the world with prominent musicians including Romain Guyot, Nicolas Baldeyrou, Calogero Palermo, Herman Stefansson, Florent Héau, Michel Lethiec and Andrew Marriner. Concert engagements have included performances in concert halls in the UK, Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, Sweden and Netherlands.

In 2022, she completed her Masters degree with Distinction at the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied with Christopher Richards, Timothy Lines, Benjamin Mellefont, Chi-Yu Mo and Laurent Ben Slimane.

Lucia has always cultivated a great passion for chamber music. In Italy, she founded Duo Motum with pianist Federico Battista Melis, with whom she performed at the Vatican museums in Rome, the Italian Cultural Institute in Lausanne (Switzerland) and music festivals throughout Sardinia. Furthermore with the association “Dimensione Danza” she periodically collaborates with choreographers and dancers, creating and showcasing performances exploring the relationship between sound and movement.

In 2024, she completed the Artist Diploma course at the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied with Peter Sparks, Richard Hosford and Paul Richards. During her year as an RCM student, she was a Hogwood Scholar and was selected as one of the BBC Symphony Orchestra Pathway Scheme 2023/2024 fellows.