Lila Holyoke

Biography supplied for the 2024 competition.

Lila Holyoke is a student at the Juilliard school under the tutelage of Natasha Brofsky and Clara Kim. Lila was a Kovner Fellow from 2022-23 while she did an undergraduate artist certificate. This fall she began her Bachelors at Barnard college in the Barnard Columbia Juilliard exchange program. She began studying cello when she was five at the Special Music School with Yari Bond. Lila Studied at Juilliard Pre-college throughout high school. She graduated from Pre-college with distinction in performance. In galas she has opened for pianists Jonathan Biss and Orli Shaham and played principal cello in a small ensemble led by Joshua Bell. At age ten, she performed with orchestra as winner of the ISO concerto competition. In 2016 she premiered Augusta Read Thomas’ work “Rainbow Bridge to Paradise.” In 2023 she placed alternate in Juilliard’s anual cello concerto competition. Lila has been featured in masterclasses with Orli Shaham, Danny Philipps, Gregory Beaver, Ani Kavafian, Astrid Schween, Mary Peckham, Steve Doane, Hannah Roberts, Clive Greensmith, Gil Kalish, Joel Krosnick, Fred Sherry, Rebecca Fischer and the Cavani Quartet. As an avid chamber musician, Lila was part of a piano trio, Trilogy, for six years. Trilogy was a semifinalist at the 2019 junior Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. They performed at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, the Rose Studio at Chamber Music Society, the National Arts Club and on WNYC. They received the NYYS Director’s Award for commitment and achievement. In 2021, Lila was part of a string quartet that performed at a Gala honoring composer Jesse Montgomery. Lila has spent her summers at the Kinhaven and Greenwood Music Schools, at Meadowmount studying with Hans Jørgen Jensen, at Yellowbarn’s Young Artists Program and at Kneisel Hall.