


Matilda Lloyd
“Lloyd plays with intense expression and immense warmth. The flawless tone, purity of line and dynamic subtlety she coaxes from her instrument are shown off to particularly impressive effect.”
BBC Music Magazine
Described by BBC Music Magazine as a “trumpet extraordinaire,” Matilda Lloyd is redefining the voice of her instrument on the world stage. Celebrated for her flawless tone, purity of line and dynamic subtlety, Matilda is a radiant force in classical music, captivating audiences with her virtuosic command of the trumpet.
Her critically acclaimed discography with Chandos Records showcases her fearless artistry, combining technical brilliance and expressive depth with innovative programming. Resonance, features a “riveting new account” (Gramophone Magazine) of Weinberg’s Trumpet Concerto with London Symphony Orchestra, while Casta Diva with Britten Sinfonia and Rumon Gamba reimagines Italian operatic arias with the voice of the trumpet. September 2025 sees the release of Fantasia with organist Richard Gowers, pairing Baroque works by Bach, Krebs, Pachelbel and Martini with four newly commissioned pieces by leading British composers, highlighting Matilda’s ongoing commitment to exploring new possibilities for the trumpet.
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2025/26 season highlights include Matilda’s performance of Helen Grime’s Trumpet Concerto night-sky-blue with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Staatstheater Meiningen, and the Lithuanian premiere at the Gaida Festival with Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. She makes her Korean debut playing the Haydn concerto with the Korean National Symphony Orchestra and performs the Arutiunian and Hummel concertos with Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Die Kammerphilharmonie Köln and Bodensee Philharmonie Konstanz. She also performs Robin Haigh’s trumpet concerto LUCK with Ulster Orchestra in December 2025 after giving the world premiere at the Aldeburgh Festival with Britten Sinfonia and Jessica Cottis in June 2024. She joins pianist Federico Colli in spring 2026 for a performance and recording of Shostakovich’s Concerto No.1 for Piano and Trumpet with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Dima Slobodeniouk for Chandos Records. Matilda’s debut concerto appearance at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival rounds off the season.
Chamber music collaborations take her to Tokyo’s Musashino Civic Cultural Hall for her Japanese debut and to King’s Place London for a new collaboration with the Goldmund Quartet in February 2026. Matilda continues her collaboration with The Gesualdo Six at the Wigmore Hall and in France, following the release of their album Radiant Dawn on Hyperion Records in August 2025, hailed “ingenious” with a 5‑star review in BBC Music Magazine.
As one of the 2024/25 European Concert Halls Organisation (ECHO) Rising Stars, Matilda gave 18 recitals on Europe’s most prestigious stages, including Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wiener Musikverein, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and Philharmonie de Paris. Recent highlights include performances with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra. She regularly collaborates with conductors such as Sir Mark Elder, Martyn Brabbins, Delyana Lazarova, Jonathan Bloxham, Anja Bihlmaier, Anu Tali, Gabriel Venzago and Lawrence Renes.
Music education is very important to Matilda; in September 2025 she was appointed Professor of Trumpet at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. Matilda regularly gives masterclasses at leading conservatoires and is the Trumpet Studio Head of the OAcademy Artist Diploma in the US. She is an ambassador for the charity Brass for Africa and mentors young brass players in the UK with Future Talent.
A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music, Matilda Lloyd went on to study under Håkan Hardenberger at the Malmö Academy of Music. In 2014, she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Brass Final and made her BBC Proms solo debut two years later with Alpesh Chauhan and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. She has won many prizes at international competitions, including First Prize at the Eric Aubier International Trumpet Competition in Rouen, France in 2017. Matilda is a Yamaha Artist.
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Sabine Frank Senior Director, Co-Head of Artist Management | Managing Director HP Munich | Head of International Offices
Sabine Frank Senior Director, Co-Head of Artist Management | Managing Director HP Munich | Head of International Offices
worldwide general management
Season Highlights
Cité de la Musique / Philharmonie de Paris
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DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano: Prelude only
Encore: JAQUES IBERT: Impromptu
ARTHUR HONEGGER: Intrada
GEORGE ENESCU: Legende
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano
DANI HOWARD: Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, "Continuum"
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: La fille aux cheveux de lin
MEL BONIS: Phoebé, Op. 30
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Préludes - Book 1, 12. Minstrels
EUGENE BOZZA: Lied for Trumpet and Piano
THÉO CHARLIER: Solo de Concours
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Rêverie
PAULINE VIARDOT: Chanson de la Pluie
GABRIEL FAURÉ: Le Papillon et la Fleur, Op. 1/1
PAULINE VIARDOT: Havanaise, VWV 1019
BOZAR
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THÉO CHARLIER: Solo de Concours
EUGENE BOZZA: Lied for Trumpet and Piano
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: La fille aux cheveux de lin
GEORGE ENESCU: Legende
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Rêverie
PAULINE VIARDOT: Chanson de la Pluie
GABRIEL FAURÉ: Le Papillon et la Fleur, Op. 1/1
PAULINE VIARDOT: Havanaise, VWV 1019
BOZAR
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ARTHUR HONEGGER: Intrada
GEORGE ENESCU: Legende
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: La fille aux cheveux de lin
MEL BONIS: Phoebé, Op. 30
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Préludes - Book 1, 12. Minstrels
DANI HOWARD: Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, "Continuum"
PAULINE VIARDOT: Chanson de la Pluie
PAULINE VIARDOT: Havanaise, VWV 1019
Fundação Casa da Música
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GLIERE: Andante only
Encore: AMY BEACH: For me the Jasmine Buds Unfold
ALFRED DESENCLOS: Incantation, threne et danse, Incantation
GEORGE ENESCU: Legende
MAURICE RAVEL: Miroirs, 2. Oiseaux Tristes
DANI HOWARD: Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, "Continuum"
GEORGE GERSHWIN: The Man I Love
REINHOLD GLIERE: Concerto for Coloratura Soprano & Orchestra
ENRIQUE GRANADOS: La Maja y El Ruiseñor
MANUEL DE FALLA: Siete canciones populares Españolas
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Swaledale Festival
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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: Concerto for Trumpet in E-flat major, Hob. VIIe:1
Noord Nederlands Orkest
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GEORGE ENESCU: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, Op. 11
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: Concerto for Trumpet in E-flat major, Hob. VIIe:1
SAVERIO MERCADANTE: 'Liete voci!', from Zaira
SAVERIO MERCADANTE: 'Ah si, questo di mia vita', from Zaira
IVO KOUWENHOVEN: Song for Africa
GUY BARKER/ALAN FERNIE: Kisoboka
NEBOSJA ZIVKOVIC: Trio per Uno
VINCENZO BELLINI: I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Oh! Quante volte
ALEXANDER GOEDICKE: Concert Etude
Arr. GIJS PHILIP VAN SCHAIK: An African Brass Experience
Sheffield Philharmonic
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DANIEL WHIBLEY: Birthday Fanfare
WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT: Die Waldnymphe, Op. 20
OSKAR BÖHME: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in F minor, Op. 18
AMY BEACH: Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 (Gaelic)
Burghofspiele
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565
JOHANN LUDWIG KREBS: Fantasia in F minor
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Fantasia in G major BWV 572
FLORENCE PRICE: Adoration
VASSILY BRANDT: Concert Piece No.2, Op. 12
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: Suite in D major for Trumpet
GIAMBATTISTA MARTINI: Largo
GIOVANNI BATTISTA MARTINI: Toccata in D major
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903
MAX REGER: Romance for violin and piano
THORVALD HANSEN: Concert Waltz
“Mieczysław Weinberg’s wryly acerbic Trumpet Concerto (1967) has fared well on records […] and now we have this riveting new account by Matilda Lloyd.”
“The encores are lovely. I love the way Lloyd opens up her vibrato at 3′23″ in Rachmaninov’s Vocalise, and how she dances through the virtuoso tricks in Goedicke’s Étude with such ease and elegance.”
“Blown away by young trumpeter: […] Matilda Lloyd has already made a name of herself, […] and met every challenge of this work.”
“She produces a seamless legato, a wide range of colour, and shapes the music like a fine singer. When brilliant pyrotechnics are called for, she delivers them with skill and panache. Above all, her playing is deeply musical.”
“Lloyd plays with intense expression and immense warmth. The flawless tone, purity of line and dynamic subtlety she coaxes from her instrument are shown off to particularly impressive effect”
“an album full of delights, which succeeds in showing that the trumpet can indeed be every bit as expressive as the human voice. Overall, this is immensely assured and really great fun.”
“She excelled with virtuosic technique as well as with sensitive sounds and produced very nuanced colours and characters of the multifaceted work in beautiful collaboration with the musicians.”
“a rare talent – intuitive, intelligent and deeply musical. I was stunned by Lloyd’s commitment and ability to communicate the music on a very deep level to the audience.”
“John Woolrich’s Hark! The echoing air is a bright, perky piece, inspired by Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, with Matilda Lloyd, the eloquent trumpet soloist”
“Her flawless tone and virtuosic technique shone“
“Trumpet recitals are not so common, but it was certainly worth hearing the one by Matilda Lloyd. Her fluency and assurance were evident from the start.”
“Matilda Lloyd demonstrated her dexterity and elan in the finale of Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto”
“The truly memorable artist on the bill is Matilda Lloyd…She’s remarkable.”
“From her first difficult and cruelly exposed fanfare to her final notes, she played impeccably, with great assurance, a secure technique and a beauty of sound that some professional colleagues I have heard would wish they had.”