Chetham\u2019s Keyboad Department has enjoyed a high profile summer of music making.\u00a0 Its sixteenth annual International Piano Summer School saw\u00a0 sixty international artists on the faculty including alumni Peter Donohoe and Leon McCawley, and internationally acclaimed performers Peter Frankl, Dmitri Alexeev, Noriko Ogawa and Steven Osborne, to mention only a few.\u00a0 Several emerging young artists shared music across the School, with\u00a0 Young Artists\u2019 recitals including performances from former Chetham\u2019s students Caterina Grewe and Julian Clef.\u00a0 Caterina has just made her debut recording of Schumann, and is a top prize winner in several international competitions.\u00a0 Julian performed Beethoven\u2019s first concerto at the Barbican in January and will embark on an extensive tour of his native India next month.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, current students celebrated success in examinations and competitions.<\/p>\n
The Rosario Marciano Piano Competition is a major annual competition organised by the Vienna International Pianists Association.\u00a0 Year 13 student Susanna Braun, who is taught by Helen Krizos, was awarded third prize in the 2016 competition, held in the Erbhar Concert Hall in Vienna.\u00a0 Susanna will perform with other soloists in Chetham\u2019s Lunchtime Recital<\/a> at St James\u2019s Church in Piccadilly, London, on Monday 28 November.<\/p>\n At the other end of the School, Year 4 student Leo Bailey-Yang, aged 8, became the youngest person ever to gain a Performance Diploma in Piano from Trinity College London.\u00a0 Performance Diplomas are one of Trinity\u2019s most advanced performance awards, more often taken by graduate level students, and are based around an advanced recital performance.\u00a0 Leo passed with a superb mark of 92%, gaining him a distinction, and now continues his studies at Chetham\u2019s with Simon Bottomley. He also played his part in inspiring young pianists in a recent edition of CBeebies Let’s Go Club<\/a>, talking about his instrument, his trip to New York’s Carnegie Hall, and of course, his School!<\/p>\n Finally, three members of Dr McLachlan\u2019s family saw success at the Scottish International Youth Piano Competition, held at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in July.\u00a0 Sons Callum, 17, and Matthew, 16, were awarded first and third prizes in the Senior Category, whilst daughter Rose, 14, gained first prize in the Junior Category.\u00a0 Rose also won the \u00a3900 special overall prize as the most exceptional pianist in both senior and junior sections of the competition.\u00a0\u00a0 All three are students at Chetham\u2019s and Callum may be heard performing Liszt\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Chetham\u2019s Symphony Orchestra<\/a> on Thursday 20 October.\u00a0 This summer, both Matthew and Callum were awarded the highest diploma from Trinity College – the FTCL, equivalent to a finals recital at conservatoire, whilst Harry Knott was awarded the LTCL, Henry Cash the LRSM and Varvara Manichuick and Mark Englander the DIP ABRSM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chetham\u2019s Keyboad Department has enjoyed a high profile summer of music making.\u00a0 Its sixteenth annual International Piano Summer School saw\u00a0 sixty international artists on the faculty including alumni Peter Donohoe and Leon McCawley, and internationally acclaimed performers Peter Frankl, Dmitri Alexeev, Noriko Ogawa and Steven Osborne, to mention only a few.\u00a0 Several emerging young artists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-keyboard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}