Winner of the prestigious Pierre Fournier Award at the Wigmore Hall, London in 2007, the cellist Gemma Rosefield made her concerto début at the age of sixteen, when she won first prize in the European Music for Youth Competition in Oslo, playing a televised performance of Saint-Saens’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra. For BBC Radio 3 she has performed Michael Ellison’s Concerto for Cello, Turkish Instruments and Orchestra with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In 2011 she released a recording of Stanford’s cello music with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Manze, and in 2014 she released a recording of Arensky Piano Trios with her trio, the Leonore Piano Trio, both for Hyperion Records. Other performances include Saint-Saens’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Brighton Philharmonic and Barry Wordsworth, Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor with the Estonian National Opera Orchestra and Vello Pahn and the première of a new work by Cecilia McDowall at Westminster Abbey.