David Liam Roberts
Winner of the 2021 Michael Measures Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts, Métis-Canadian cellist David Liam Roberts enjoys an international performing career as a soloist and chamber musician. The 2024–25 season included a 40-concert tour of the Canadian Prairies with pianist Godwin Friesen, presented by Prairie Debut. With his Rilian Trio, David Liam won the first prize, audience prize and commissioned work prize at the 12th Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition, in Norway. Recent and upcoming appearances include the Copenhagen Summer Festival (Denmark), the Prince Edward County Festival (Ontario) and the Trondheim Kammermusikkfestival (Norway), as well as debuts in Calgary (Calgary Pro Musica), Bergen and Oslo with the Rilian Trio. David Liam holds a bachelor’s degree and artist diploma from the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music, in Toronto, where he studied with Hans Jørgen Jensen and Andrés Díaz. He is now studying with Danjulo Ishizaka in the master’s program at the Basel Academy of Music, in Switzerland. Additionally, he is studying historical cello with Petr Skalka at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.