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Lara Melda · Piano Lara won the BBC Young Musician competition in 2010 at the age of 16, performing Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 in the final round with Vasily Petrenko and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Cardiff. She made her BBC Proms and Royal Albert Hall debut as one of the soloists performing with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Andrew Gourlay in an evening devoted to previous Young Musician winners. She has performed with the Britten Sinfonia (Barbican), Royal Northern Sinfonia (The Sage), Aurora and English Sinfonia, as well as touring New Zealand. After graduating from the Royal College of Music with a first class honours degree in 2016, she made her Wigmore Hall debut in 2017 and followed this with three more sold out recitals there in 2018, 2019 and 2021. During the pandemic Lara continued giving concerts on online platforms.
Concert Programme
Beethoven · Sonata No.17 in D minor ‘The Tempest’, Op. 31 No. 2 Largo: Allegro Adagio Allegretto Liszt · Étude in D flat major, S. 144 No. 3 ‘Un Sospiro’ Wagner/Liszt · Isoldens Liebestod from ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Brahms · Intermezzo in A minor Brahms · Capriccio in D minor from Fantasien Op 116 Interval Chopin · Nocturne in B flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1 Chopin · Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 Allegro maestoso Scherzo, Molto vivace Largo Finale. Presto, non tanto