Clare Juan
Cello | 2024 Julius Isserlis Scholarship
A note from Clare
I feel very privileged to be in the company of the amazing recipients of the RPS Julius Isserlis Scholarship. This August, I am very excited to be attending the course, Sommermusik im Oberen Nagoldtal to continue my overseas studies with Professor Leonid Gorokhov.
I met Professor Gorokhov in 2022 and have been attending his classes every year. I have learnt so much from him; I hugely admire his unique outlook and perspective on how to play the cello efficiently as well as hearing his refreshing standpoint on how to be a cellist and a musician in the 21st Century. His classes also allow me the opportunity to meet many like-minded students and I have learnt as much from them as well. I feel very strongly that these classes are essential to my development and my future career, and I am extremely grateful to the Royal Philharmonic Society for their support.
Biography
Clare Juan is an Australian cellist, currently pursuing her Master of Performance degree at the Royal College of Music, London, studying with Gemma Rosefield. She previously completed her undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music with Raphael Wallfisch. Clare is the The Sir Peter & Lady Walters Scholar, supported by the Pauline Hartley Award, and a beneficiary of the TAIT Performing Arts Association and the Marylebone Educational Trust.
In 2015 Clare made her concerto debut with the Preston Symphony Orchestra after winning their competition as well as the Audience Prize and has since given solo recitals in over three continents. As an avid chamber musician, she was recently personally selected to perform the Schubert C Major String Quintet with the Marmen Quartet, and her piano trio recently won 2nd prize and the Audience prize at the Intercollegiate Cavatina Competition at Wigmore Hall. In the contemporary music scene, she has commissioned and premiered new works as well as winning the 2023 RCM Contemporary Competition.
Clare plays on a cello made by William Forster Junior in 1804, commissioned by George IV and previously owned by His Majesty King Charles III, loaned to her by the Royal College of Music, London.