Live recording from my recital at the Wiltshire Music Centre

Chopin Nocturne In B Major Op. 32 No. 1

Lara Melda plays Mozart Piano Concerto In D Minor K466 live with the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales conducted by Grant Llwellyn

Lara Melda plays Mozart Piano Concerto In D Minor K466 live with Grant LLwellyn & BBC NOW

Lara Melda plays Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No.2 live with the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales conducted by Vasily Petrenko

Lara Melda plays Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No.2 live with Petrenko & BBC NOW

Lara Melda plays Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 live with Kirill Karabits the Northern Sinfonia

Lara Melda plays Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 live with Kirill Karabits & Northern Sinfonia

Lara Melda plays Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 live with Richard Gill & NZSO

Lara Melda plays Chopin Fantasie Impromptu Op 66 as an encore after her recital at Wigmore Hall (28.01.2018)

Lara Melda - Chopin Fantasie Impromptu Op 66 (Encore: Wigmore Hall 28.01.2018)

Chopin Etude in F Major Op. 10 No. 8

Lara Melda won the BBC Young Musician 2010 competition, performing Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 in the final round with Vasily Petrenko and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Cardiff. Since then she has also performed Mozart Piano Concerto K466 and Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

 
Lara made her BBC Proms and Royal Albert Hall debut this summer as one of the soloists performing with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Andrew Gourlay in an evening devoted to previous Young Musician winners. Other concerto performances have included Britten’s Young Apollo with the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Paul Daniel (Barbican), Rachmaninov’s 2nd Piano Concerto with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Kirill Karabits (The Sage), Mozart K466 and K242 with the Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon (Kings Place), the Grieg Concerto with English Sinfonia (St John’s Smith Square) and Beethoven 3 in a tour of New Zealand with the National Youth Orchestra of New Zealand. Amongst many venues over the UK and abroad she has played recitals at the Laeiszhalle (Hamburg), Les Sommets Musicaux in Gstaad (Switzerland), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival (Germany) and Cadogan Hall (London). Lara made her Wigmore Hall recital debut in 2017, and followed this with two more sold out recitals there in January and December 2018. She returns to the Wigmore Hall for an evening recital in November 2019.

 

Lara Melda performs regularly in Turkey and made her debut at the International Music Festival in Istanbul in June 2011, playing the Grieg Concerto with the Borusan Philharmonic. She has also been presented by the 'Istanbul Recitals' piano series and performed at the Antalya Piano Festival, Bogazici University and Zorlu Center. In 2012 she received the prestigious 'Promising Young Artist' award from Kadir Has University and in 2015 was voted the 'Woman of the Year Arts Award' by Elele-Avon and the Turkish public. Lara returned to Turkey in May 2019 to perform Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Cumhurbaşkanlığı Senfoni Orkestrası in Ankara. 

 

In the summer of 2016 Lara graduated from the Royal College of Music with a first class honours degree, where she studied with Ian Jones. She had begun piano lessons with Emily Jeffrey at the age of six. In 2015 was the first scholarship holder under the Imogen Cooper Music Trust. Most recently Lara was invited as a guest on BBC TV's Proms Extra programme and in 2020 she will be releasing a Chopin CD.

Lara Melda

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