January 18 @ 11:00 am
Free Admission- 11am start – Please book your place to give us an idea of numbers
Talented Wirral pianist, William Bracken opens 2025’s Piano Series with a free masterclass, playing excerpts from and discussing his programme for the evening recital, which will include works by Bach, Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven. These informal sessions allow a fascinating look inside the mind and technique of a professional musician and provide an ideal opportunity for aspiring pianists to meet and observe someone at the top of their craft. Tell all your keyboard playing friends!
William Bracken is in demand as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician and teacher. The Wirral-born pianist has won numerous awards including 1st prize at the 2022 Liszt Society International Piano Competition, 1st prize, press prize and audience prize at the 2023 Euregio Piano Award international piano competition and 3rd prize at the 2024 UniSA international piano competition in South Africa. He is currently continuing studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he also holds a position as teaching assistant in the Centre for Creative Performance and Classical Improvisation.
Concert highlights include several concerto performances at The Barbican, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, St. John’s Smith Square and recitals at Chipping Campden Festival, LSO St. Luke’s and most recently Wigmore Hall, where he was praised by the Telegraph for his “courage and stamina and musicality in abundance” and “an ability to hold an audience in the palm of his hand”. He also made his New York debut at Carnegie’s Weill recital hall in January 2024.
William performs a large and diverse range of repertoire and also has a keen interest in jazz and improvisational elements of performing classical music. He is a founding member of Ensemble+, a chamber collective focused primarily on challenging preconceptions about live music through the medium of improvisation and is a current artist diploma student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama studying with profs. Martin Roscoe and Ronan O’Hora.
His recital programme will be:
Bach: Toccata in C minor BWV911
Haydn: Sonata in D Hob XVI:42
Brahms: Four piano pieces op. 119
Scriabin: Sonata no. 9 op. 68 ‘Black Mass’
Beethoven: Bagatelle op. 126 no. 1 in G
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