REGENCY STRING QUARTET

Ellen Baumring-Gledhill

Cellist Ellen Baumring-Gledhill was a 2020 BBC Young Musician Strings Category Finalist and won Junior Guildhall’s Lutine Prize the same year.  She completed her undergraduate studies at The Royal Academy of Music in 2024 with a first-class degree, continuing her studies on the Master’s Programme with Felix Schmidt and Christoph Richter. She gained her Master’s with Distinction and a DipRAM for an outstanding final recital. She won a number of prizes for performance at The Royal Academy of Music including The Jacob Barnes Award, Katie Thomas Memorial Prize and Rhoda Butt Award. Previously, she studied with her uncle, Dr Oliver Gledhill, at Junior Guildhall as D’Addario Strings Cello Scholar, receiving the Principal’s Prize in her final year.

Winner of the 2025 Westbourne Orchestra Concerto Competition, recent concerto performances include Elgar, Lalo and Dvořák with orchestras in England and Scotland. In 2023, Ellen was selected to participate in a residency with Guy Johnston at the Lake District Summer Music Festival and in 2022, premièred and recorded John Cooney’s Tendril for solo cello, composed for the Royal Academy of Music’s Bicentenary. 

Ellen has participated in masterclasses with Zuill Bailey, Marc Coppey, Gary Hoffman, Steven Isserlis, Maria Kliegel, Mischa Maisky, Phillipe Muller, Arto Noras, Miklós Perenyi and Alisa Weilerstein and in the Curtis Institute’s Young Artists Summer Program.