

RPS Instrument Purchase Grant 2025 | £825 towards an oboe
Lou Grüne-Yanoff is an oboist studying at the Royal College of Music in London with Olivier Stankiewicz. She has been awarded first prize in numerous competitions, including Stockholm International Music Competition and Bundeswettbewerb Jugend musiziert. Lou previously studied in Stockholm with Emmanuel Laville, where she was awarded a stipend for outstanding musical achievement by Lars och Ruby Ullmans stiftelse, and was selected to play in the MUBA music festival in Tallinn, Estonia with her chamber quartet, as part of an international Erasmus Exchange.
Lou’s performances with the O/modernt Chamber Orchestra, Polar Star Symphony Orchestra and Stockholm Youth Symphony Orchestra have brought her to many of Sweden's historic and renowned concert halls.