Llŷr Williams piano

Award Winner 2004

Llŷr Williams brings an extraordinary musical intelligence to all his work, as soloist, accompanist and chamber musician. He has performed with such orchestras as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Hallé Orchestra. He has performed at the BBC Proms in London and has given many remarkable performances at the Edinburgh Festival. Last season, he completed a successful tour of the United States with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and gave a stunning recital of Schumann and Schubert at the Wigmore Hall. This season, he will give recitals throughout the UK and makes his début in Hannover. He will perform a series of concerts with other Borletti-Buitoni Trust award winners in the US, including his début at Zankel/Carnegie Hall. He will also give a series of three recitals at Perth Concert Hall, with violinist Alexander Janiczek: together they will be exploring Beethoven’s early sonatas for violin and piano. He will work with BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Welsh National Opera Orchestra. He will also go to Milan to work with I Pomeriggi Musicali, performing Elliott Carter’s Dialogues and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy. Llŷr Williams read music at The Queen’s College, Oxford, graduating in 1998 with a first class alpha degree. He went on to take up a postgraduate scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music where he won every prize and award. In 2002, Llŷr Williams was selected for the Young Concert Artists Trust scheme. His first commercial CD featuring Chopin’s Préludes was released in March 2006 on the Quartz label.

Photograph taken by Sussie Ahlburg