Junyan Chen

Leeds International Piano Competition Prize Winner

Continuing the festival’s relationship with the Leeds International Piano Competition we welcome 2024 prize winner Junyan Chen who first appeared at the festival in 2021 as a student. In addition to winning the Second Prize at Leeds she also won the chamber music prize and the Alexandra Dariescu award for a work by a woman composer.

Having studied with Joanna MacGregor she holds a fellowship with the RAM, having recently graduated with a first-class honours MA degree.

PROGRAMME
Couperin –
Les Barricades Mistérieuses
Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou Les Maillotins
Les Ombres Errantes,
Les Tricoteuses

Messiaen –
Preludes La colombe
Un reflet dans le vent

Ravel –
Le Tombeau de Couperin

Beach –
Variations on Balkan Themes

Ravel –
La Valse

This concert is generously supported by Roebuck Estates

Photo Credits: Frances Marshall