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Lucas Krupinski plays F. Chopin Piano Concerto in F minor (Larghetto)

POLISH CHOPIN PIANO COMPETITION Warsaw, 24th November -- 2nd December 2012

with the Polish Radio Orchestra conducted by Jakub Chrenowicz

London-based Polish pianist Lucas Krupinski is the winner of the 7th San Marino International Piano Competition and all of its contest prizes - the Audience Award, the Music Critics’ Award and the Orchestra Award.
 
Lucas was a finalist at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano in 2017, and has won international piano competitions in Hannover (2015), Aachen (2016) and Goerlitz (2020). As a semi-finalist, he ranked among the best twenty pianists at the 17th Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw (2015).
 
His debut album Espressione was released in 2017 and includes compositions by Haydn, Chopin and Scriabin, inspired by his musical travels to Italy. The CD was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2018 alongside albums by Krystian Zimerman and Evgeny Kissin, and received excellent press reviews in Pizzicato magazine, MDR Kultur, Radio Luxembourg, Radio France and Gramophone.
 
In 2018, Lucas gave his debut recital at Carnegie Hall / Isaac Stern Auditorium and has since received invitations to play with the Chicago Philharmonic and the Buffalo Philharmonic. In the same year, he went on tour with the Santander Orchestra and the legendary Lawrence Foster. During the Winter Olympics in South Korea (2018), Lucas performed at a special recital in PyeongChang. He has recently performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, La Verdi in Milano and Merkin Hall in New York, and has performed recitals in Paris, Tokyo and Sydney, to name but a few locations.
 
In addition to being twice laureate of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Prize for remarkable artistic accomplishments, Lucas has also received the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship and the Krystian Zimerman Foundation Scholarship. In 2016, he was honoured with a Commemorative Medal from the Frederic Chopin University of Music in recognition of his artistic achievements. In 2017/2018, he received a prestigious DAAD scholarship for his postgraduate studies in Germany. Since 2018, he has been a member of Talent Unlimited UK.
 
Lucas was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1992. He previously studied at the Zenon Brzewski School of Music with Professor Joanna Åawrynowicz, at the Frederic Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where he graduated with a “Magna cum Laude” distinction under the supervision of Professor Alicja Paleta-Bugaj and Dr Konrad Skolarski. He continued his studies with Professor Arie Vardi at Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media (2017-2018) and with Professor Dmitri Alexeev at the Royal College of Music in London (2018-2019).
 
Lucas Krupinski is a Steinway Artist, represented by the Ludwig van Beethoven Association and Madam Elzbieta Penderecki.

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Joo Yeon Sir (born June 29, 1990 in Seoul), is a South Korean violinist residing in the UK.

A former pupil at the Purcell School, Joo Yeon Sir is a Scholar at the Royal College of Music, London where she studies with Dr Felix Andrievsky. She has been a major prizewinner at national and international competitions in the UK and abroad and has performed as recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestras at various venues including the Wigmore Hall, London Arts Club, St James's Palace in presence of Prince Charles, the Foundling Museum as part of New London Orchestra Young Performer's Concert Series supported by the MBF, and most recently at Fairfield Halls performing Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending.

In 2006 at the age of sixteen, Sir became the Overall Grand Prix Laureate at Nedyalka Simeonova International Violin Competition in Haskovo, Bulgaria where her gala performance was broadcast on Radio Bulgaria (BNR). Sir is also recipient of Royal Philharmonic Society's Emily Anderson Prize Award 2007, MBF Music Education Award 2008 and the Second Prize at Windsor Festival International String Competition 2008, as youngest finalist. She holds many Young Musician titles including the Harlow, Rotary Club, Sevenoaks and Rickmansworth Young Musician Competitions. Other prizes include June Clements Memorial Medal from the Sevenoaks Three Arts Festival, Prix de l'Hospitalité Musicale from Masters de Belesbat, Duke of Devonshire Award and President's Prize.

She has been supported generously by the Benslow Music Trust, Musicians Benevolent Fund, the Royal Philharmonic Society, Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund and Royal College of Music.

Sir is also a composer and has won the First Prize and the title of BBC/The Guardian Young Composer of the Year 2005 at the age of fourteen for her composition "Conflict in Time", which has been performed at Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall by Endymion and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. She has written compositions for the Purcell School projects such as the "Birtwistle Games" Festival at the South Bank Centre and her most recent work, "Cold Dark Matter - an exploded view" for orchestra, inspired by British sculptor Cornelia Parker, was premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre by the Purcell School Symphony Orchestra in February 2007 as the winner of Purcell School Composition Competition. At the same occasion, she appeared as soloist in Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 as part of Howard Goodall's programme, Class Acts.

2020 concerts which unfortunately had to be cancelled.