Since winning BBC Young Musician in her home city of Birmingham, Lauren has been invited to perform at the BBC Proms with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Proms in the Park with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and is in demand as soloist throughout the UK and internationally.

At the age of 16, Lauren Zhang won the 2018 BBC Young Musician Competition. Lauren’s performance of Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mark Wigglesworth was broadcast live on BBC4 and BBC Radio 3 to widespread acclaim. Following her success in the competition, Lauren will make her BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall this summer. She is in demand as a soloist throughout the UK and further afield.

Programme:

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op.101

BRAHMS: Variations on a theme of Paganini, Op.35 (Books 1 & 2)

Interval

CHOPIN: Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise, Op.22

RAVEL: La Valse

RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit (complete)