Italian violinist Lucilla Rose Mariotti Banwell, born in 2001, is currently studying with Itzhak Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London for an Artist Diploma on full scholarship. She has been selected as the winner of the prestigious Carne Trust Junior Fellowship 2023/24 at the RCM and she is also a 2023 Boise Scholar. She completed the Master of Performance with distinction at the RCM in 2023, as an Anne & Brian Wadsworth Scholarship holder. During her studies at RCM, Lucilla has also been supported by Help Musicians as an Ian Fleming Award holder and by the Albert Cooper Music Charitable Trust.

From a young age, she has performed as a soloist with many orchestras, including the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela under the baton of Maestro Rodolfo Saglimbeni, the Kensington Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hayden Chamber Orchestra, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech Philarmonic Orchestra Pardubice, the Harlow Symphony Orchestra, the Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Francigena Chamber Orchestra, the Nuove Assonanze Orchestra, the Strings of Maderna Orchestra, the Note Future Chamber Orchestra, the Florence Symphonietta, the Orchestra Classica di Alessandria, among others. In 2021, she played the violin Concerto in F major by Thomas Linley Jr. in its premiere performance in Italy. In 2022, she performed as a soloist with the New English Concert Orchestra at the Battle Proms Concerts at Blenheim Palace, Burghley House, Hatfield House, and Highclere Castle in the UK. During her time at the RCM, she performed as a soloist the third movement of Mozart’s violin concerto K216 with the RCM Chamber Orchestra in a live-streamed orchestral masterclass with Maxim Vengerov. She also played as a soloist at the Conductors’ Podium event. Additionally, she has performed Navarra by Sarasate with Maxim Vengerov and other RCM students during a private Gala at RCM, and later with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall.

As a recitalist, she has performed at various prestigious festivals and venues including the Lerici Music Festival, the Bloomsbury Festival, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. She has also performed at the Royal Palace of Gödöllő in Hungary, where she gave a world premiere performance of pieces by Alfredo D’Ambrosio recorded live on a DVD by Achord Pictures. Other notable venues include Giardini La Mortella in Ischia, Villa Lante in Rome, the Italian Institute of Culture in Budapest as a prizewinner of Campus delle Arti 2017 Prize, Pitti Palace in Florence, Brera Museum in Milan during EXPO 2015, Piaggio Foundation Museum, and the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York as a prize winner at the New York International Artists Competition, among others.

In 2020 and 2023, she participated in the "European Festival of Soloists" organized by the Delegation of the European Union, the embassies of EU Member States in Venezuela, and El Sistema as an Italian representative. Some of her performances have been broadcast by the Vatican Radio, Czech Radio, and Venice Classic Radio.

Besides being a soloist, Lucilla Rose is also interested in chamber music, and in 2023, she participated with a scholarship in the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove in Cornwall. During the Amadeus Festival held at the International Amadeus School in Vienna, she took part in the Janoska Ensemble Workshop.

Lucilla Rose has recently won the grand prize together with a 2-year loan of a 1709 Antonio Stradivari violin from the Goh Family Collection and the public prize based on the audience's vote at the "Violins&Soul" Salon Music Violin Competition at the AMADEUS Festival 2023 in Vienna. She has also won many other national and international competitions including the 59th Kocian International Violin Competition in the Czech Republic, the Josef Muzika International Violin Competition in Nová Paka receiving the prize for the best performance of the contemporary Czech piece "Dža More" by Silvia Bodorova, the ESO 32nd Young Soloist Competition in Eastbourne receiving also the St Cecilia Bequest Award for the best performance of a musician under 18 and many other competitions in Italy and abroad. In 2019, she was awarded the Maura Giorgetti scholarship by winning the Young Musicians Competition organized by the Filarmonica del Teatro alla Scala.

Lucilla plays a fine 1709 "Golden Age" Antonio Stradivari violin, a gratuitous 2-year loan from the Family Goh Collection.