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Alison Nethsingha

Alison Nethsingha

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Holly Cartwright

Holly Cartwright

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Representation

Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

About Junyan

Leeds International Piano Competition 2024 • Second Prize & The Marion Thorpe Silver Medal • Chamber Music Prize (Yaltah Menuhin Award) • Work by a Woman Composer Prize (Alexandra Dariescu Award)

Junyan Chen won Second Prize at the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition also winning the prizes for chamber music and a work by a woman composer. In the competition final she performed Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.4 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Domingo Hindoyan. She has also played this work with Edward Gardner, in a concert that was live-streamed on Classic FM.

Forthcoming solo engagements include London (Wigmore Hall), Leeds, Harrogate and Liverpool. In spring 2025 Junyan will collaborate with the Manchester Collective in a project including a world premiere by Héloïse Werner with performances in Manchester, Leeds and London (Southbank Centre). An enthusiastic performer of contemporary music, she has collaborated with Hans Abrahamsen, Eleanor Alberga, Mark Anthony-Turnage and Dominic Muldowney.

Her debut solo album, It's Time, features works by Fazil Say, Unsuk Chin, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Eleanor Alberga. Released by Linn Records in 2022, this disc explores cultural identity through different musical genres and art forms, including Turkish folk ballad, jazz, Russian poetry, and African dance.

Junyan Chen lives in London, having recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with Professor Joanna MacGregor.

Junyan is based in London

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

Season Highlights

Sep 2024
St George's Hall, Bradford
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 4 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Domingo Hindoyan
Sep 2024
Music Room, Liverpool
Solo recital BEETHOVEN: Sonata No.28 in A major, Op.101 UNSUK CHIN: Studies No.1, No.4, No.6 HARRISON BIRTWISTLE: Oockooing Bird, Sad song LISZT: Selection from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S.173: 7. Funérailles
Oct 2024
Ladbroke Hall, London
Solo recital CPE BACH: Sonata in A major H186 HARRISON BIRTWISTLE: Ookcooing Bird and Sad Song BEETHOVEN: Sonata No.28 in A major, Op.101 UNSUK CHIN: Studies No.1, No.4, No.6 LISZT: Sonata in B minor

Sample Programmes

  • Programme 1 (80 mins)

    CPE BACH: Piano Sonata in A Major, H. 186 HARRISON BIRTWISTLE: Oockooing Bird & Sad Song BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata in A Major, Op. 101 Interval LISZT: Funérailles AMY BEACH: Balkan Variations

  • Programme 2 (60 mins)

    FAZIL SAY: Black Earth THOMAS LARCHER: Noodivihik HARRISON BIRTWISTLE: Oockooing Bird & Sad Song IANNIS XENAKIS: Evryali MAURICIO KAGEL: Ragtime Waltz JONATHAN HARVEY: Tombeau de Messiaen for Piano and Tape

News

Press

  • Rachmaninov No. 4 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    St George's Hall, Bradford
    Sep 2024
    • The vivacity was outstanding…vintage Rachmaninov.

Discography