Programme:
Britten: Cello Suite No. 3 Op. 87
Schubert: Sonata in A minor 'Arpeggione' D821
with David Trippett (piano)
No tickets required
Guy Johnston is a renowned British cellist, celebrated for his exceptional skill and artistry. His early successes included winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year, and significant awards, notably the Shell London Symphony Orchestra Gerald MacDonald Award, Suggia Gift Award and a Young British Classical Performer Brit Award.
He has performed with many leading international orchestras including the London Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, and St Petersburg Symphony. Recent seasons have included a BBC Prom with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, concertos with The Hallé, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, and Orchestra of The Swan.
Most recently, he has been the featured soloist of Taverner’s ‘The Protecting Veil’ for Britten Sinfonia’s 2024 UK and Ireland tour receiving critical acclaim in The Guardian and the Arts Desk. Guy was also involved in four further performances of ‘The Protecting Veil’ with Britten Sinfonia in October 2025; at Hatfield House Music Festival, Cambridge Music Festival, and two performances at St Sophia’s Orthodox Church in London which will be recorded with Signum records.
David Trippett is a Fellow in Music at Christ's College, and Chair of the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge. Alongside his primary academic work, he has performed as a pianist and conductor within Europe, China, and both coasts of America, in venues from the Liszt Academy in Budapest and the Britten-Pears Festival, Aldeburgh to the Shanghai Conservatory and the Library of Congress, in Washington DC.
This year he will release three CDs conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra in celebration of the music of Andrew Downes (1950-2023). His realisation of Liszt's opera Sardanapalo in both critical and performing editions has been performed in seven countries, and will receive its premiere staging at the Hungarian State Opera in March 2027. His latest book, Sound in Mind and Body, is forthcoming with OUP.