Joy Lisney is a British cellist and composer. She has appeared as a soloist in international venues including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Queen's Hall Edinburgh, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and St. John's Smith Square. Her most recent tour was a Beethoven Project, performing all five cello sonatas in a single concert and concluded with a sold-out performance at London’s Southbank Centre.

Joy has enjoyed collaborations with artists including Dame Emma Kirkby, Alexander Baillie, Howard Williams, Robert Max and the Wihan Quartet and also performs regularly in duo with her father James Lisney. 

Joy is a passionate advocate of new music and in 2013 she was chosen by Jan Vriend to perform his magnum opus for violoncello and piano, 'Anatomy of Passion', to celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday. In summer of 2014 she performed as a London Sinfonietta Emerging Artist at the BBC Proms in a concert broadcast on Radio 3 to celebrate the 80th birthday of Sir Peter Maxwell- Davies.

As a composer Joy is the 2014-15 recipient of the Ralph Vaughan-Williams Scholarship and the Newton CHESS Award. In November 2014 the Arditti Quartet gave the premiere of her string quartet 'Apparitions' and she is currently working on a commission for the Kings Lynn Festival to be performed in July 2015.

London-based composer of classical music www.bernardhughes.net

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