Serenna MacLellan, Joshua McDade and Siri Bengtsson Marklund

Serenna MacLellan - Flute

Siri Bengtsson Marklund - Soprano

Joshua McDade - Piano

Programme

G.F. Handel – HWV 207 ‘Meine Seele..’ & HVW 204 ‘Sûbler Blumen…

Roussel – Deux poémes de Ronsard for flute and soprano

Gaubert - Soir Païen for flute and soprano

Gaubert – Fantaisie for flute and piano

Jacques Ibert – Deux Stèles Orientées for flute and soprano

Maurice Ravel – Scherazade II. La Flûte Enchantée

Biographies

Serenna MacLellan is a Scottish flautist and collaborative musician committed to the transformational role of music in society. She is currently pursuing a master’s at the Royal College of Music, London, as an RCM scholar, supported by Help Musicians and beneficiary of The McGlashan Trust Award, Buchar-Fraser Scholarship, The Kathleen Trust and The Foundation of St Matthias. She studies flute with Gitte Marcusson, Sue Thomas, Rachel Brown (baroque) and Stewart McIlwham (piccolo).

With a diverse range of musical interests, ranging from baroque to contemporary to folk, Serenna regularly performs in London as well as her home country, Scotland, in solo and chamber and orchestral settings. Notably, she is flautist in Gal Trio, who were featured as Berwick Music Society’s Rising Stars and principal flute of Edinburgh City Orchestra. Recent performance highlights include Royal College of Music Philharmonic and Opera Orchestra, where she featured as principal piccolo in the production of Janáček’s the Little Cunning Vixen.

A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Serenna completed her Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours, under the tutelage of Sarah Newbold, Ruth Morley and Georgia Browne (baroque). She performed the Ibert Flute Concerto as winner of the Edinburgh University Concerto Competition and received the University of Edinburgh AGB Award, the Tovey Memorial Prize, and Sir Thomas Beecham Scholarship for Instrumentalists, and First Place in the Edinburgh Festival Woodwind Solo Recital Class in recognition of her flair and potential in solo performance.

Alongside performing, Serenna is passionate about advocating for inclusive and accessible participation in music. This is reflected in her current research, supporting the work of the female composer Mel Bonis (1858-1937), as well as through private teaching and involvement in community music projects amongst isolated and marginalised communities.

Upcoming engagements include a recital at St Dundas in the West (1st of July 2026), and Kensington Music Library Classical Music and cake series (21st August 2026).

Siri Bengtsson Marklund is a Swedish soprano currently in her third year of a Bachelor’s degree at the Royal College of Music in London, where she studies with Dinah Harris as a recipient of the Thriplow Charitable Trust Award.
Siri has a particular interest in Lied and chamber music, with a focus on text-led interpretation and collaborative performance. She was selected as a Young Artist for the Leeds Song Festival (2026), where she worked with leading artists in the field of song. In November 2025, she was awarded the Schubert Song Prize at the London Song Festival Masterclass with Joseph Middleton. She has performed in the Royal College of Music’s Song Plus concert series and will appear as a recitalist at the London Song Festival in autumn 2026.
Siri was brought up in the Swedish choral tradition and sang with the World Youth Choir as a teenager. Prior to her studies in London, she attended the Vadstena Song and Piano Academy, a Swedish pre-college programme specialising in art song. In 2024, she was selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music to participate in the Dorothy Irving Duo Masterclass. She has taken part in masterclasses and coachings with Dame Sarah Connolly, Simon Lepper, Caroline Dowdle, Joan Rodgers, Camilla Tilling, Nigel Foster, Kristian Attila, Iréne Theorin, Magnus Svensson, Kristina Hammarström, Bernarda Fink, Nicky Spence, David Cowan and Anna Tilbrook.
Recent performance highlights include Damigella in Francesca Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola di Alcina as part of an ERASMUS+ programme in Reykjavík, as well as Mozart’s Requiem and the concert aria Ch’io mi scordi di te?.
Siri has received generous scholarships in both Sweden and UK, including from the Anglo-Swedish Society, the Aurora Lillieros Fund, and the Thora Ohlsson Cultural Fund.

Joshua McDade is a Scottish pianist currently in the first year of his Master’s degree in Collaborative Piano at the Royal College of Music, where he holds the Poppy Holden Scholarship. There, he studies under Roger Vignoles and Simon Lepper. Having graduated from Durham University in 2024, he is now based in London as a collaborative pianist. He currently focuses primarily on classical art song and chamber music.

Before moving to London, Joshua had been accompanying in and around the Northeast, primarily with Durham University, where he collaborated with a wide range of student ensembles and performers. He worked as a répétiteur for their productions of Iolanthe, HMS Pinafore, and Dido and Aeneas, gaining valuable experience in operatic rehearsal and performance. Alongside this, he served as an accompanist for the university’s music students’ examinations, supporting both singers and instrumentalists across a broad repertoire.

Joshua has performed in both chamber and solo settings, winning prizes at competitions including the Glasgow Music Festival. Before relocating to London, he participated and competed as part of various chamber ensembles, ranging from piano duets to piano trios and piano quintets, and performed as part of a national broadcast for Holocaust Memorial Day.

Since beginning his studies at the Royal College of Music, Joshua has taken part in several song competitions, including performing in the final of the Joan Chissell Schumann Competition. He was a 2026 Young Artist as part of the Leeds Song Festival where he performed in masterclasses with musicians such as Bernarda Fink, Mark Padmore, Anna Tilbrook, and Joan Rogers.

As of now, Joshua is continuing to expand his work and performance opportunities in London, with upcoming internal and external competitions both within and beyond the Royal College of Music. He is particularly interested in developing long-term collaborations with singers and exploring the interpretative depth of the song repertoire.

Presented in association with the Royal College of Music.

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