BIOGRAPHY

Larli Beth Davies is a London-based recorder player, composer, and researcher from Maitland, Australia. She enjoys exploring the potential of the recorder as an instrument, with a particular focus on contemporary and new music. 

She is currently studying for a Master of Music as a Headley Trust Scholar at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She holds a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours from the Royal College of Music, where she was a Laing Scholar and studied with professors Sarah Jefferey, Maria Martinez Ayerza, and Ashley Solomon. She has received additional mentorship from Anna Stegmann, Tabea Debus, and Karen Drury, and played in masterclasses with Kees Boeke, Han Tol and Bolette Roed. She completed a third-year exchange at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, where she studied with Susanne Fröhlich and Carsten Eckhardt. At the RCM, she received numerous awards, including the ABRSM Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award in 2022 and an instrumental grant from the Wolfson Trust, which enabled her to purchase two handmade instruments.

Larli is a bold and dynamic performer with extensive solo experience across a variety of musical styles. She has collaborated with composers, artists, clowns, dancers, museums, and academics, debuting many new works and commissions, including installations and interdisciplinary pieces. 

She also regularly works in a variety of chamber ensembles and orchestras. She performed with the Royal College of Music Recorder Consort in venues and events including the King’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace, the inaugural Shakespeare in Music Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon, the SRP Recorder Festival Fringe in Saltaire, and the 2025 RCM Recorder Festival. She also performed with the 2025 RCM Baroque Orchestra in London and Oxford. Her trio, Triple Fipple, performed in the Brighton Early Music Festival, the Great Exhibition Road Festival, the Crypt at St John’s Square, and numerous libraries, museums, and cafes. They also received mentorship from Olwen Foulkes and Jorge Losana and led workshops in Brighton primary schools as part of the BREMF LIVE Scheme. 

As one of a handful of wheelchair users in the music industry, Larli is passionate about accessibility in the arts and improving the recognition of disabled musicians and their creative potential. In 2026, she launched an initiative called Zoppa, which aims to recognise and platform Disabled musicians. 

Her compositions vary from avant-garde to jangle pop. Her work often explores Disability as a creative and transformative force, drawing inspiration from an array of unlikely places, including old distorted films, bad drag, bush poetry, electronic sounds, medieval music, and the inherent noisiness of using a wheelchair. 

Her research primarily focuses on Disability and Ethnomusicology. She is expanding this work as a postgraduate student and through her work with Zoppa.