Sophie Rivlin (cello) is in her final year of the Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) where she studies with Philip Sheppard and Colin Carr (previous teachers include Rebecca Gilliver, Melissa Phelps and Joan Dickson). She has played chamber music in leading UK venues (Purcell Room, St John’s Smith Square, Kettles Yard, BBC Radio Scotland) and as part of the Britten Festival 2001, Cambridge Summer Music Festival 2005, and St Columb Festival 2003.
 
As a founding member of the Capriccio Piano Quartet, she toured Sweden and was a recipient of the Phyllis Lee Award. Her recent solo experience includes performances with the Joyful Company of Singers in London, Petworth and for the International Polyfolia Festival in Normandy. Orchestral experience includes leading the cello section for Canterbury Choral Society in Canterbury Cathedral 2005, the Kensington Sinfonia in St John’s Smith Square 2005 and the Choir of London Orchestra on their tour to Palestine in 2004 and on its Naxos recording of
Tavener’s Lament for Jerusalem.
 
Most recently she organised a concert of twenty-five cellists playing together in a concert at the Dukes Hall (RAM). Before attending the Royal Academy of Music she completed a philosophy degree at Clare College, Cambridge and, in 2003, worked at the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation in Mumbai teaching the cello and conducting the “Singing Tree” Children’s Choir.
 
Sophie Rivlin cello