Liubov Ulybysheva is a Russian-born British cellist who enjoys a versatile career as a soloist and chamber musician alongside teaching and coaching. She completed her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Oleg Kogan and at the Royal Academy of Music with Felix Schmidt, winning the Mir Carnegie Prize for Cello upon graduating.

She is a recipient of many awards and competitions prizes, such as the First Prize at the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artist Competition, the MBF Music Education Award, the Muriel Taylor Young Gifted Cellist Award, the Hattori Foundation, the Jellinek and the Kenneth Loveland awards.

Liubov was also a recipient of the Meyer Foundation Award and the English Speaking Union Scholarship. Liubov later became a member of the Razumovsky Academy and made her solo debut at the Wigmore Hall as part of the Razumovsky Young Artist Recital Series in 2008. The same year she started teaching at the Razumovsky Academy herself, first as a teaching assistant to Oleg Kogan and now as a teacher in her own right. Alongside teaching at the Razumovsky Academy, Liubov has given master-classes, cello classes at the Royal Academy of Music, cello and solo, chamber music and orchestra coaching with various youth orchestras including Southbank Sinfonia. As a soloist and chamber musician Liubov has performed across the UK and abroad. She is very grateful to have been able to perform at some incredible venues such as the Wigmore Hall, St.Martin-in-the-Fields, Kings Place, Barbican Hall, LSO St Luke’s, Fairfield Hall, Oxford’ Holywell Music Room, Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, etc. She has played with, amongst others, Dora Schwarzberg, Natalie Clein, Jack Liebeck, Philip Dukes, Katya Apekisheva and the Razumovsky Ensemble. She has performed live on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Ulster and Classic FM.

In 2018 Liubov joined the Royal Opera House orchestra and in the same year she released her debut recording, From the Shadow of the Great War, featuring the works for cello and piano by English composers.

In 2019, Liubov became an artistic manager of the Brundibar Arts Festival which aims to bring littleknown music written during the Holocaust to the general public.

She was very honoured to be awarded the Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2020