Prize-winning pianist to feature a piece by Nicholas Marshall
Leeds Piano Competition (2024) finalist and prize winner, Julian Trevelyan, is performing at the 2026 Festival and will be featuring a sonata by local musician and composer Nicholas Marshall.
Nicholas was Artistic Director of the Festival from the early days of the Festival until 2019, and was key to our development as a prestige Festival able to attract top international artists.
The sonata has been described by Duncan Honeybourne as “… severe and uncompromising … yet shot through with moments of lyricism, even tenderness, and eruptions of almost ecstatic passion”
It will be in excellent company in a programme that also comprises Liszt’s 6 Consolations; Debussy’s L’Isle Joyeuse, and Brahms’Handel Variations Op.28.
Julian performs regularly with leading orchestras across Europe and the UK, and has already collected a veritable cabinet of prizes since becoming the youngest winner (aged 16) of the Long-Thibaud-Crespin International piano competition – with prizes at Géza Anda (2021), Horowitz Kviv-Geneva (2023) and The Leeds (2024) awarded since. We are very proud to welcome a pianist of this stature to perform a work by a celebrated local composer who is so much a part of the Festival.
You May Also Like:
