Francesca Lauri

Francesca Lauri is sought after as a collaborative pianist specialising in the vocal repertoire of song and opera. She recently won the collaborative piano prize at the 2024 Royal Over-Seas League competition, and previously the 2023 AESS Dorothy Richardson English Song Prize and the 2022 Somerset Song Prize. Francesca was a finalist in the 2024 Kathleen Ferrier competition alongside prize winners Madeline Boreham and Charlotte Jane Kennedy. Also with Madeline, she won the LSF Schubert Prize and they performed the final recital in the 2024 Summer Festival. She recently made her BBC Radio 3 debut alongside duo partner Dafydd Jones after their performance at the Wigmore Hall in which he won the ROSL Gold Medal.

As a Young Artist, Francesca has participated in various programmes such as Leeds Lieder, Samling and Shipston Song, and was the Sam Hutchings scholar at the Oxenfoord International Summer School. Francesca is passionate about French Melodie and was the Viola Tunnard Scholar during her time as a Britten Pears Young Artist where she worked closely with Susan Manoff, Veronique Gens and Audrey Hyland on French Song repertoire.

Francesca recently graduated with distinction from her postgraduate studies in Collaborative Piano at the Royal College of Music where she was the recipient of the Ian Evans Lombe Scholarship, studying with Simon Lepper, Kathron Sturrock and Roger Vignoles. She was supported generously by the Countess of Munster trust and won the pianist prizes in the Lieder competition, the Lies Askonas, the Joan ChissellSchumann competition and received 2^nd prize in the English Song competition. In 2022, she graduated from Trinity Laban,under the tutelage of Sergio de Simone, with First-Class Honours, receiving the TCL Silver Medal for piano studies and the David Gosling Prize for Piano Accompaniment. Francesca is the current Lord and Lady Lurgan collaborative piano fellow for the RCM vocal department.

Updated 13 August 2024