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S t u d e n t  S u c c e s s e s 

  • Winner of the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Junior Piano Competition, 2022

  • Winner of the Concerto Prize at University of Warwick, 2022

  • Winner of the 2nd prize at the Città di Barletta International Piano Competition, 2014, 2021

  • Winner of the Junior Beethoven Prize at Junior Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 2019, 2022

  • Winner of the Birmingham Town Hall Symphony Hall (THSH) Prize 2017, resulting in a recital at Birmingham Town Hall in 2018 

  • Winner of the Beryl Chempin Beethoven Prize at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 2014

  • Winner of the Marjorie Hazlehurst Piano Award 2016 (awarded to the BMus4 piano student whose Major Project demonstrates the greatest imagination, enterprise and highest level of performance) 

  • Winner of the Junior Beryl Chempin Beethoven Prize at RBC, 2019 (then 12-year-old pre-college student)

  • Finalist in the Beryl Chempin Beethoven Prize at RBC, (finished runner-up), 2017

  • Winner of a full scholarship to study with Martin Katz (José Carreras’s accompanist and a Decca and EMI recording artist) at the University of Michigan, USA, from 2017 onwards on the Doctor of Musical Arts programme and being appointed Graduate Staff Teaching Assistant

  • Winner of the Mario Lanza Opera Prize (as collaborative pianist) at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 2017

  • Winner of the English Song Prize (as collaborative pianist) at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 2016

  • Winner of the Ashleyan Opera Prize (as collaborative pianist) at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 2016

  • Winner of the Hester Dixon Award, a full scholarship to Malcolm Martineau’s Oxenfoord International Summer School, 2016

  • 16-year-old pre-college student is currently supported by the highly selective charity Future Talent; he was the only pianist to represent the charity in a concert at Buckingham Palace in May 2016; he is currently preparing Mozarts Piano Concerto K503 in C major to perform and conduct from the piano with the Junior Conservatoire chamber orchestra; as a 5-year-old, in 2011, he participated in Lang Lang’s massed piano event at the Royal Festival Hall and performed alongside him on the main stage

  • A student released a commercial CD, featuring the Mendelssohn D minor piano trio as the centre piece, 2015

  • Two students performed as tutti piano with the CBSO Youth Orchestra at Birmingham Symphony Hall under the batons of Edward Gardner and Ben Gernon, 2014

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