Already the recipient of several international prizes, Indira Grier is one of the UK's most highly regarded young cellists. She has been invited to the Verbier Festival Soloist Academy, has won Making Music’s ‘Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist Award’, the Royal College of Music Concerto Competition performing the Elgar Cello Concerto, the Royal College of Music Unaccompanied Bach Prize, and a Gold Medal in the Vienna International Music Competition. She currently teaches at the Yehudi Menuhin School for exceptional young talents, and previously taught at the Junior Royal College of Music. She has also won awards from the Hattori Foundation and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. Other competition successes include winning prizes at the Royal Overseas League Competition, the Tunbridge Wells International Young Artists Competition and the Bromsgrove International Young Musicians’ Platform. She was awarded the Junior Guilhermina Suggia Gift on two consecutive occasions.

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Indira has performed across the UK and Europe in venues including Wigmore Hall, St. John's Smith Square, St. James' Piccadilly, Blackheath Halls, Sheldonian Theatre Oxford, Èglise de Verbier and Palazzo Chigi-Saracini Siena. She participated regularly in masterclasses with David Geringas, Frans Helmerson, Thomas Ades and Steven Isserlis at the Accademia Chigiana, Interlaken Classics, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, IMS Prussia Cove and Verbier Festival.

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She has been performing as soloist from the age of twelve, working with conductors such as Stephen Cleobury, Jonathan Willcocks and Martin Andre, and has also performed frequently across the UK as part of the Grier Trio. A keen chamber musician, Indira's recent collaborations have been with pianists Daniel Lebhardt and Ariel Lanyi, and she has worked with numerous renowned artists including Ashley Wass, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Andrew Marriner and the Castalian Quartet in festivals such as Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, Winchester Chamber Music Festival and Wye Valley Chamber Music festival. Last season included performances of Schumann, Dvorak, Elgar and Finzi concertos. ​​

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Indira studied with Alexander Chaushian at the Royal College of Music, London. Previously she was taught by Melissa Phelps, and then by Troels Svane at the Musikhochschule Luebeck. In addition to her playing, Indira read English Literature at University College London.

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