Yseult Cooper Stockdale
Cello
Yseult Cooper Stockdale enjoys a diverse career as a soloist and chamber musician. Performances include Elgar Cello Concerto at the National Concert Hall, Beethoven Triple Concerto in the National Opera House in Wexford, West Cork Chamber Music Festival (supported by the Vanbrugh Quartet’s Young Musician’s Scholarship Scheme) and the NCH’s Chamber Music Gathering. She performed as a Rising Star at the RDS and was selected as a Britten-Pears Young Artist in and as a member of Southbank Sinfonia in 2018. Recent engagements include a performance at Chamber Music on Valentia, a recital of solo contemporary music with Kirkos, and her fourth concert to date with the Irish Composers Collective.
Yseult was recipient of the John Vallery Memorial Prize at the Freemasons Young Musician of the Year in 2015 and was awarded the 2016 Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe scholarship. A passionate supporter of contemporary music, Yseult has premiered over fifty works, including several solo cello commissions. On the other side of the spectrum, Yseult is principal cellist of Fishamble Sinfonia, an orchestra specialising in early music. Yseult studied at CIT Cork school of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music with Christopher Marwood and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater & “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig with Peter Hörr.
Yseult was recipient of the John Vallery Memorial Prize at the Freemasons Young Musician of the Year in 2015 and was awarded the 2016 Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe scholarship. A passionate supporter of contemporary music, Yseult has premiered over fifty works, including several solo cello commissions. On the other side of the spectrum, Yseult is principal cellist of Fishamble Sinfonia, an orchestra specialising in early music. Yseult studied at CIT Cork school of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music with Christopher Marwood and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater & “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig with Peter Hörr.
Yseult appears in Instrumentalising Folk Song on 24 June 2018 and Schoenberg and Poetry on 27 June 2018
