Cello
Cellist Jessie Ann Richardson, became an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2017 and teaches chamber music at the Royal College of Music. Having studied at the Purcell School, then at the Royal Academy of Music with David Strange and Moray Welsh, Jessie won the Herbert Walenn Prize for cello and graduated with the highest honours. Musical inspirations include the late Bernard Greenhouse, whom Jessie was very fortunate to have studied privately with, at his invitation during the winter of 2007 in Cape Cod, USA; And Lluis Claret whom Jessie studied with in Barcelona in 2011.
Jessie is a founding member of the renowned Piatti Quartet, Resident Quartet at Kings Place which has won many prizes including international prize winners in the 2015 Wigmore International String Quartet Competition, the St Martins in the Fields Chamber Music Competition, Martin Fund/Philharmonia Award, Park Lane Group Artist 2010-2013 and were for two consecutive years, Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal Academy of Music and then Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. They studied with Günter Pichler at the Reina Sofia Institute in Madrid and with the Belcea Quartet.
Jessie has recorded chamber music CDs for the labels Hyperion, Chandos, Rubicon, Linn Records, Signum Records, Toccata, Resonus, NMC, Delphian and RTF Classical. Her recording of Lucien Durosoir’s ‘Berceuse’ for cello and piano is regularly heard on BBC3 and has been streamed over two million times.
Jessie plays a Celoniatus Cello made made in 1741 around Turin kindly lent to her by a patron of the Beares International Violin Society.