Julian Miles Trevelyan is a British pianist and performs regularly throughout Europe and the UK. In 2019 he performed Beethoven’s Diabelli variations in Festivals in London, Munich, Paris, and Switzerland.
He has performed more than twenty different piano concertos, including Prokofiev’s 5th Piano Concerto with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, and concertos by Howard Blake and Brahms in the UK. He gave the first Russian performance of the Concertino for Piano and Orchestra by Lucas Debargue in Zaryadye Hall in Moscow in 2018.
Julian composes, sings, and plays chamber music on the piano, violin, and viola. He has postgraduate qualifications in both piano performance and composition (UK and France) and is currently studying Musicology at Oxford University (his first graduate degree was in geology). His teachers are Elizabeth Altman, Professor Christopher Elton (Emeritus Professor, Royal Academy of Music, London), Rena Shereshevskaya (Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris), Patrick Hemmerlé, and Catherine Manson.
Julian is a laureate of the 2018 Dumortier International Piano Competition (Belgium), the 2017 Dudley International Piano Competition (UK), the 2017 Kissinger KlavierOlymp (Germany), and the 2015 Long-Thibaud-Crespin International Piano Competition (France). He was awarded the Luitpold Prize at the 2017 Kissinger Sommer Festival.
You can hear Trevelyan’s First Round performance during Session 2 on Friday, July 31.