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Cellist Ellen Baumring-Gledhill was a 2020 BBC Young Musician Strings Category Finalist and
won Junior Guildhall’s Lutine Prize the same year. She is currently a Scholar at The Royal
Academy of Music studying for a Professional Diploma with Guy Johnston and Felix Schmidt,
supported by a Calleva Foundation Award. She studied with Christoph Richter and Felix
Schmidt for her Master’s, graduating with Distinction in 2025 as well as being awarded a
DipRAM for an outstanding final recital. Prior to this, she completed her undergraduate
studies with Felix Schmidt, graduating with a first-class degree.
She has won a number of prizes for performance at The Royal Academy of Music including
the Jacob Barnes Award, Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize, Historical Women’s Composer
Prize, the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize, the Katie Thomas Memorial Prize and the
Rhoda Butt Award. Previously, she studied with her uncle, Dr Oliver Gledhill, at Junior
Guildhall as D’Addario Strings Cello Scholar, receiving the Principal’s Prize in her final year.
Winner of the Westbourne Orchestral Society’s 2025 Concerto Competition and runner up
in the 2022 Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra Soloist of the Year Competition, Ellen has
given a number of concerto performances with orchestras in England and Scotland.
In 2023, Ellen was selected to participate in a residency with Guy Johnston at the Lake
District Summer Music Festival and in 2022, premièred and recorded John Cooney’s Tendril
for solo cello, composed for the Royal Academy of Music’s Bicentenary.
Ellen is cellist of the Regency String Quartet, winners of the 2025 Royal Overseas League
String Ensembles Prize. The quartet performed at Wigmore Hall in July 2025 as part of the
Gold Medal Final concert. They were also chosen as Kirckman Concert Society Artists for
2025/26, performing at Kings Place in Autumn 2025.
Ellen has participated in masterclasses with Zuill Bailey, Marc Coppey, Gary Hoffman, Steven
Isserlis, Maria Kliegel, Mischa Maisky, Phillipe Muller, Arto Noras, Miklós Perenyi and Alisa
Weilerstein. She has also participated in IMS Prussia Cove and the Curtis Institute’s Young
Artists Summer Program.
Forthcoming 2026 concerto performances include the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra, the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Langtree Sinfonia and the
Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto with the Angel Orchestra in London. She will be giving recitals for
the Knighton and District Concert Society in Wales and Egham and District Concert Society in
Spring 2026 and as part of the Music at Beaulieu Concert Series in Autumn 2026.