Callum McLachlan

Callum McLachlan piano

“Continuing to captivate audiences with his profound musicality and virtuosic performances” Leeds International Piano Competition.

Callum McLachlan, has been described as player with “a magical sense of colour and extraordinary technical prowess”. Having been a finalist of the 18th Schumann Competition Zwickau and semi-finalist at both the Leeds and Santander International Piano Competitions, he was the only British pianist selected for the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Gramophone magazine praised him for “the warmth and body of his gorgeous sonority”, with his first-round described as “luminescent, clear, virtuosic, and balanced”. He won First Prize at the Welsh International Piano Competition, the Scottish International Piano Competition, and the RNCM Chopin Prize.

Callum has performed across the UK, Europe, and the USA. He is an active chamber musician, having collaborated with renowned ensembles such as the Casals Quartet and Kaleidoscope Ensemble, and regularly performs with Queen Elisabeth Laureate cellist Jeremias Fliedl. He has performed chamber arrangements of concertos with students from the Royal College of Music in London, and receives frequent re-engagements at leading UK venues and festivals.

Hailing from Greater Manchester, Callum was born into a family of musicians and began piano lessons with his father aged 7. At age 11, he entered Chetham’s School of Music, studying with Dina Parakhina, and was awarded a Fellowship from Trinity College London. He completed his Bachelor’s degree at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, then pursued further studies in Salzburg and Cologne. He has recently studied with Professor Kirill Gerstein at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin.

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Programme

Beethoven Sonata in A, Op. 101

Ravel Miroirs

Rachmaninoff Etude Tableaux Op. 39, No. 9