Clifford Llantaff

Clifford Lantaff won a foundation scholarship to the Royal College of Music in 1974 to study with Renata Scheffel-Stein. Whilst there he won the Jack Morrison prize in 1977 and the Elizabeth Coates prize in 1978. On leaving college in 1978, he became the principal harpist with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and in 1980 won first prize in
the Mobil national harp competition.

In 1981, he moved to Stuttgart to take up the position of principal harpist with the South German Radio Symphony Orchestra, returning to England in 1984 to join the BBC Philharmonic, a post he has held with distinction for the past thirty-eight years.