All UK Music Conservatoires and Specialist Music Schools are invited to nominate a pianist to represent them in the Senior Competition. Each competitor performs a complete Beethoven piano sonata of their choice in addition to compulsory Bagatelle A minor, WoO59 ‘Für Elise’ – revised version in 1822.

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Bobby Chen and Nadia Lasserson, piano duet

Robin Soldan, flute
Nathaniel Harrison, bassoon
Nadia Lasserson, piano

Beethoven 8 Variations on a Theme by Count Waldstein, WoO 67, for piano duet
Beethoven Trio for flute, bassoon and piano, WoO 37
Beethoven 6 Variations on ‘Ich denke dein’, WoO 74, for piano duet

Minkyu Kim, piano (BPSE 2018 Senior Intercollegiate Piano Competition First Prize Winner)

Sihoo Kim Sonatine
Gounod/Liszt Hymne à Sainte Cécile, S.491
Beethoven Für Elise, WoO 59 (1822 revised version)
Czerny 8 Nocturnes romantiques de différents caractères, Op. 604, No. 6 La Consolation
Liszt Variationen über das Motiv von Bach, S180

Mikhail Shilyaev, piano

Mozart Rondo in A minor K.511
Beethoven Sonata No.28, in A, Op.101
Brahms Four Pieces for Piano, Op.119

Paul Silverthorne, viola
Julian Jacobson, piano (BPSE Chair)

Beethoven Septet in E flat, Op.20 arr. for viola and piano

Michał Ćwiżewicz, violin
John Paul Ekins, piano

Beethoven Sonata No.7 in C minor, Op.30 No.2
Brahms Sonata No.1 in G major, Op.78

Mishka Rushdie Momen, piano

Beethoven Sonata No.12, in A flat, Op.26
Schumann Impromptus on a theme by Clara Wieck, Op.5
Mendelssohn Variations Sérieuses, Op.54

Pei-Chun Liao, piano

Beethoven Sonata No.26, in E flat, Op.81a ‘Les Adieux’
Philip Martin 12 Short Preludes (2017, dedicated to Pei-Chun Liao)
Schumann Carnaval, Op.9

Greenwich Trio
Lana Trotovšek, violin
Heather Tuach, cello
Yoko Misumi, piano

Eliza Safjan, soprano

Beethoven Allegretto for Piano Trio, in B flat, WoO.39
Beethoven 23 Songs of Various Nationalities WoO 158a

• No. 17 ‘Lilla Carl, sov sött i frid!’
• No. 10 ‘Poszła baba po popiół’
• No. 4 ‘Wann i in der Früh aufsteh’
• No. 16 ‘Schöne Minka, ich muss scheiden’

Brahms Piano Trio No.2, in C, Op.87

Mengyang Pan, piano

Beethoven Rage Over a Lost Penny (Rondo a capriccio in G, Op.129)
Liszt Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
Liszt Funérailles
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

Maxim Kinasov, piano (BPSE 2018 Senior Intercollegiate Piano Competition Second Prize Winner)

Beethoven Sonata No.30, in E, Op.109
Slonimsky Intermezzo in Memory of J. Brahms
Brahms Variations on a Theme by Paganini in A minor, Op.35
Rachmaninov Études-Tableaux No.2 in C major, Op.33
Rachmaninov Études-Tableaux No.9 in C sharp minor, Op.33

Minkyu Kim, piano (BPSE 2018 Senior Intercollegiate Piano Competition First Prize Winner)

An All-Liszt programme
I puritani. Introduction et Polonaise de l’opéra de Bellini, S.391
Dem Andenken Petöfis, S.195
Bagatelle sans tonalité, S.216a
Beethoven’s Geistliche Lieder von Gellert, S.467 No.4 – Vom Tode, Op.48 No.3
Beethoven’s Lieder von Goethe, S.468 No.4 – Mephistos Flohlied, Op.75 No.3
Valse de l’opéra Faust de Ch. Gounod, S.407
Großes Konzertsolo, S.176

Julian Jacobson (BPSE Chair) and Mariko Brown, piano duo
Eliza Safjan, soprano

Beethoven Three Marches, Op.45 for piano duet
Beethoven Ich denke Dein, WoO 74 for soprano and piano duet
Schubert Heiß mich nicht reden, heiß mich schweigen
Schubert Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
Schubert So laßt mich scheinen, bis ich werde
Schubert Kennst Du das Land
Brahms Meine Liebe ist grün
Debussy Marche écossaise, L.77 for piano duet

All UK Music Conservatoires and Schools are invited to nominate a pianist to represent them in the Junior Competition.

Each competitor performs a complete Beethoven piano sonata of their choice in addition to compulsory Bagatelle Op.33 No.2 in C major.

Matthew Lau, piano (BPSE 2018 Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition Prizewinner)

Beethoven 6 Variations in F major, Op.34
Rachmaninoff Études-Tableaux, Op.33, No.4
Rachmaninoff Études-Tableaux, Op.39, No.5
Debussy Voiles from Préludes Book 1
Debussy Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest from Préludes Book 1
Debussy La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune from Préludes Book 2
Verdi-Liszt Concert Paraphrase on Verdi’s Rigoletto, S434

Domonkos Csabay, piano

Beethoven Sonata No.32, in C minor, Op.111
Chopin 3 Nocturnes, Op.9