• Program
• About the Artists
  • Tuulia Hero
  • Patrick Moriarty
  • Stephanie Tang

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About the Artists

Tuulia Hero

Tuulia Hero is the violinist for the London-based Paddington Trio, an active concert violinist and improviser, and a teacher of violin and chamber music at the Royal Northern College of Music and Guildhall Young Artists King’s Cross in London.

With the Paddington Trio, Tuulia has received first prizes in several prestigious competitions, most recently the 2023 Parkhouse Award and the 70th Royal Over-Seas League Competition. As Kirckman Concert Society and City Music Foundation Artist, her concerts have taken her everywhere in the United Kingdom, around Europe, and to Northern America. In the 2023/24 season, the Trio played over 50 concerts in the Netherlands, Northern America, Austria, France, and Italy, as well as being featured on BBC Radio 3 In Tune and Yle Radio in Finland.

Tuulia graduated with her Bachelor’s degree from the violin class of Janne Malmivaara, having simultaneously been studying at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London as recipient of the Eduard and Marianna Loeser Scholarship and graduated with Distinction from the violin and improvisation classes of Levon Chilingirian and David Dolan with her Masters in Performance.

Playing a Stradivarius violin from 1707, generously lent to her by the Sibelius Academy, Tuulia is a 2023-2024 artistic grant recipient of the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation in Finland. She has been generously supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Martin Wegelius Foundation, Pro Musica Foundation, Finnish Music Foundation, and the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki.

Patrick Moriarty

Cellist Patrick Moriarty is one of Ireland’s foremost musicians and is in high demand as a soloist and as a chamber musician. Patrick has performed in venues across Europe such as Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, Victoria Hall, Muziekgebouw, Musiikkitalo, IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, and GAIA Music Festival. He has won numerous competitions and prizes such as the 70th Royal Over-Seas League Competition and the prestigious Parkhouse Award in Wigmore hall. Recording work includes working with The Abbey Road Studios Institute as well as multiple recordings for BBC3, RTE lyric FM, YLE and VPRO.

Patrick studied at the Young European Strings School of Music with Martin Johnson before moving to London where he was awarded a Scholarship from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to study with Louise Hopkins and Rebecca Gilliver and was subsequently invited to return as a Chamber Music Fellow.

Stephanie Tang

A native of Los Angeles, pianist Stephanie Tang is the prizewinner of multiple international competitions and has performed as a soloist and chamber musician worldwide. At the age of 12, she performed in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and at sixteen, made her orchestral solo debut with the West Covina Symphony Orchestra. She has since then performed solo recitals in Los Angeles, Shenzhen, Shanghai, the Netherlands, Banff, Ottawa, Toronto and Gijon.

Stephanie has worked with many prominent artists, including Richard Goode, Robert Levin, Jonathan Biss, Kirill Gerstein, Robert McDonald, Menahem Pressler, and Leon Fleisher. An avid chamber musician, she has performed and collaborated with John Adams, Andrés Diaz, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and coached with members of the Ébène, Guarneri, and Tokyo Quartets. She is a member of the London-based Paddington Trio, where the ensemble recently won 2nd prize and a special prize for the best interpretation of an Estonian work at the Tallinn 2021 International Piano Chamber Music Competition.

Stephanie began her professional studies with Zhaoyi Dan at the Shenzhen Arts School in China. She later completed her Bachelor of Music at the Colburn Conservatory of Music and Artist Diploma at the Glenn Gould School in Toronto with John Perry and Master of Music at the Yale School of Music with Peter Serkin and Boris Slutsky. She is currently doing post-graduate work at the Guildhall School in London.