His past performances have taken him to France, Poland and Russia and he has played in venues such as St Martin in the Fields, Snape Maltings, Cardiff Millennium Centre and the Wigmore Hall. Next season’s concerto performances are to include Liszt’s 1st Piano Concerto, Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano concerto. He is an active performer, regularly appearing as recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician. He has enjoyed receiving masterclasses from top pianists including Ronan O’Hora, Bernard Roberts, Peter Donohoe and Lang Lang, who said about Erdem’s playing: “Such a special sound.I really enjoyed everything he does, it’s quite stunning playing”. Subsequently, he performed Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. In 2008 he won the Principal’s prize at GSMD and was the piano winner of BBC Young Musician of the Year. In 2006, Erdem was a prizewinner in the International Rachmaninov Competition for Young Pianists, held in the composer’s birth place, and was also awarded the Keyboard Instrument Prize at GSMD. He is now in the third year of his undergraduate course at GSMD, where he has won a full scholarship to study with concert pianist, Martin Roscoe. At the age of thirteen he was recommended to attend a conservatoire on Saturdays and studied for five years under Mark Fielding at Junior Guildhall. Neither of his parents are musicians, but he started his own musical training at the age of six, having piano lessons from the age of nine. Was born in Ipswich in 1989 to a Turkish father and British mother. He plays on a David Tecchler cello (1694) on generous loan from a private individual. Michael holds a Karl Motesiczky Scholarship funded by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust. He took several masterclasses at the Kronberg Academy in Germany, including with Bernard Greenhouse, David Geringas, Frans Helmerson and was selected for a public lesson with the late Mstislav Rostropovich. He was selected by the Young Classical Artists Trust in 2013 and won 2nd Prize in the 2012 International Brahms Competition in Austria and 1st Prize in the 2011 International Suggia Competition in Porto. Recent dates have included the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival, the Kölner Philharmonie, and the Théâtre des Abbesses in Paris.īorn in Bulgaria, Michael studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Louise Hopkins, winning the Gold Medal in 2014 and the Wigmore Hall Prize in 2017. In the UK, Trio Isimsiz regularly appears at venues such as Wigmore Hall and Snape Maltings. The trio’s first CD was released in 2017 and in 2018 they won a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award. Spring 2020 will see the release of his debut CD on the Rubicon label which will feature works by Poulenc, Dutilleux and Franck with the pianist Erdem Misirlioglu.Ī passionate chamber musician, Michael is a member of the critically acclaimed Trio Isimsiz. Michael will begin the New Year by performing alonside Liya Petrova at the New Year's Day concert in Sofia which will be broadcast live on TV. John's Smith Square for a centenary celebration of the cellist Kenneth Heath. He also gives the first performance of JR Heath's Cello Concerto since 1962 at St. This season, he returns to the Leicester International Music Festival for performances of chamber works with other world renowned musicians. Most recent orchestral highlights have included Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Barber Concerto with the New Symphony Orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Haydn's Concerto in D with Sinfonia Cymru. In 2013 he performed Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante at the Barbican conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Further afield he has given recitals at Carnegie’s Weill Hall and Los Angeles Cello Festival, and toured throughout China and Argentina.Īs a soloist Michael has appeared with the Philharmonia, Bournemouth Symphony and CBSO Youth Orchestras, as well as the Munich Chamber and English Chamber Orchestras, and has worked with conductor such as Edward Gardner and Rory MacDonald. The award-winning cellist Michael Petrov has impressed audiences and critics with his “captivating musical temperament and a direct eloquence, as if speaking through his instrument” (Die Welt).Īn ECHO Rising Star in the 2015/16 season, Michael has performed at major concert halls including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Cité de la Musique Paris, Musikverein Vienna, Budapest Palace of Arts, Kölner Philharmonie and the Laeiszhalle Hamburg.
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