Biography
Heather Tuach is cellist of Greenwich Trio and Fitzwilliam String Quartet and trustee of The Susanne Beer Cello Corner Foundation, which supports young cellists through instrument loans and tuition grants.
Between 2008 and 2016, and from September 2021, Heather was, and is again, cellist of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet. With the Fitzwilliam String Quartet she has performed throughout the UK, including at Wigmore Hall and Kings Place in London, and toured North America, Europe and South Africa. She appeared live on BBC Radio 3's ‘In Tune’ and was in residence at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Bucknell University, Pennsylvania. The Quartet is now in residence at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
In 2018, Heather joined the acclaimed Greenwich Trio, with violinist Lana Trotovšek and pianist Yoko Misumi. Greenwich Trio performs regularly in London, including at Conway Hall Sunday Concerts and at the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe. The Trio began recording the complete piano trios of Brahms in 2021, a project they will continue in 2022.
Heather has made a number of videos for The Cello Corner YouTube Channel. She is most proud of videos she made in 2021 of three commissioned solo cello works: Laude, Stone and Bird, in memory of her father, written by British composer Marcus Barcham Stevens. In 2020, she recorded Suzuki Book 8 for the YouTube Channel and also two videos of the solo cello suite Reflections, Dances and Fantasias by Liz Dilnot Johnson.
Heather can also be heard on a number of recordings including Greenwich Trio: Beethoven Piano Trio Op 97 (Hedone Records, 2020); Fitzwilliam Quartet: Bruckner String Quartet and Quintet (Linn Records, 2015), which received 5/5 stars from BBC Music Magazine; and Music from Armenia for Cello and Piano (Divine Art Records, 2014). Recorded with pianist Patil Harboyan, it has been called ‘A delightful disc of discoveries’ (Jeremy Nicholas, Gramophone Magazine). In 2015, the duo performed Music from Armenia at Carnegie Hall, New York. Heather also recorded the solo cello suite, Reflections, Dances and Fantasias, by British composer Liz Dilnot Johnson, which appears on Intricate Web (Metier, 2017).
Heather studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland; with Antonio Lysy at McGill University in Montreal; at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland; and with Colin Carr at Stony Brook University in New York, where she completed a Doctorate of Music in 2009.
Heather's cello, a Goffriller copy, was made by Yorkshire luthier Roger Hansell.
Between 2008 and 2016, and from September 2021, Heather was, and is again, cellist of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet. With the Fitzwilliam String Quartet she has performed throughout the UK, including at Wigmore Hall and Kings Place in London, and toured North America, Europe and South Africa. She appeared live on BBC Radio 3's ‘In Tune’ and was in residence at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Bucknell University, Pennsylvania. The Quartet is now in residence at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
In 2018, Heather joined the acclaimed Greenwich Trio, with violinist Lana Trotovšek and pianist Yoko Misumi. Greenwich Trio performs regularly in London, including at Conway Hall Sunday Concerts and at the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe. The Trio began recording the complete piano trios of Brahms in 2021, a project they will continue in 2022.
Heather has made a number of videos for The Cello Corner YouTube Channel. She is most proud of videos she made in 2021 of three commissioned solo cello works: Laude, Stone and Bird, in memory of her father, written by British composer Marcus Barcham Stevens. In 2020, she recorded Suzuki Book 8 for the YouTube Channel and also two videos of the solo cello suite Reflections, Dances and Fantasias by Liz Dilnot Johnson.
Heather can also be heard on a number of recordings including Greenwich Trio: Beethoven Piano Trio Op 97 (Hedone Records, 2020); Fitzwilliam Quartet: Bruckner String Quartet and Quintet (Linn Records, 2015), which received 5/5 stars from BBC Music Magazine; and Music from Armenia for Cello and Piano (Divine Art Records, 2014). Recorded with pianist Patil Harboyan, it has been called ‘A delightful disc of discoveries’ (Jeremy Nicholas, Gramophone Magazine). In 2015, the duo performed Music from Armenia at Carnegie Hall, New York. Heather also recorded the solo cello suite, Reflections, Dances and Fantasias, by British composer Liz Dilnot Johnson, which appears on Intricate Web (Metier, 2017).
Heather studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland; with Antonio Lysy at McGill University in Montreal; at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland; and with Colin Carr at Stony Brook University in New York, where she completed a Doctorate of Music in 2009.
Heather's cello, a Goffriller copy, was made by Yorkshire luthier Roger Hansell.