BIOGRAPHY
Larli Davies is a London-based recorder player from Maitland, Australia. She enjoys exploring the potential of the recorder as an instrument, with a particular focus on contemporary and new music.
She graduated in July 2025 with a Bachelor’s of Music with First Class Honours from the Royal College of Music (RCM), where she was a David Laing scholar and studied with Sarah Jeffery, Maria Martinez Ayerza, and Ashley Solomon. She has received additional mentorship from Karen Drury, Anna Stegmann, and Tabea Debus, and played in masterclasses with Kees Boeke, Han Tol, and Bollette Roed. In 2023, she undertook an exchange at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, where she studied with Susanne Frohlich and Carsten Eckhardt.
As a soloist, Larli has extensive experience across musical styles. In early 2024, she debuted 3D-printed and scanned replicas of 17th-century instruments in the RCM Museum Collection at an international conference, a project in collaboration with the University of Turin. She often performs in the RCM’s regular concerts, and in February 2023, played Paula Mattheson’s ‘Sparrows in Supermarkets’ in a major concert of electro-acoustic works. She frequently collaborates with composers and debuts new works, including installation and multi-disciplinary performance pieces, most recently commissioning and debuting ‘made for breaking (NOT slicing)’ for contrabass recorder and live electronics by Thomas Shorthouse.
Larli regularly performs as a chamber musician in various settings. As a member of the RCM Recorder Consort, led by Maria Martinez-Ayerza she has performed in venues and events including the King’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace (November 2024), the inaugural Shakespeare in Music Festival in Stratford upon Avon (May 2025), the SRP Recorder Festival Fringe in Saltaire (June 2025), and the 2025 RCM Recorder Festival. She was also part of the 2025 RCM Baroque Orchestra, which performed in St John’s Church, Oxford.
Larli is a founding member of the recorder trio, Triple Fipple, which was selected for the 2024/45 Brighton Early Music Festival’s LIVE Scheme. Triple Fipple has performed in venues including The Crypt at St John’s Square and Great Exhibition Road Festival, has led primary school workshops, and received mentoring from Olwen Foulkes and Jorge Losana. They are passionate about performing music by underrepresented composers, having recently commissioned Molly Frances Arnuk for a companion piece to Imogen Holst’s Deddington Suite.
Larli has received 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. In addition to being a David Laing scholar at the RCM, she has received further financial support from the Henry Wood Trust and the Snowdon Trust.
As one of a handful of wheelchair users in the music industry, she is passionate about accessibility in the arts and improving the recognition of disabled musicians and their creative potential.