An Afternoon with Rose McLachlan (Pianist)

PROGRAMME

Beethoven Sonata op.14 no. 2

Chopin Nocturne op. 62 no. 1

Chopin Barcarolle

Debussy Images book 1 (reflets dans l’eau, hommage à Rameau, mouvement)

Chopin Ballade no. 1

Rose McLachlan comes from a family of musicians and began piano lessons with her father aged 7. Shortly after she joined Chetham’s School of Music where she studied with Helen Krizos. In 2020, she entered the Royal Northern College of Music, and now is at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the tutelage of Charles Owen, Martin Roscoe and Ronan O’Hora.

She appears frequently with orchestra, making her debut aged 13 in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Barry Wordsworth and was broadcasted twice on Radio 3. As a result of winning the PianoTexas Festival concerto competition, she performed with the Fort Worth Symphony. In 2023, she performed Saint Saens ‘Carnival of the Animals’ in the Bridgewater Hall with the Hallé orchestra. In September 2024, Rose performed alongside Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Andrea Nemecz in Mozart’s triple piano concerto, with the Manchester Camerata conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy. This was broadcast on BBCR3 and will be released on the Chandos Label.

Rose has already had considerable successes in national and international competitions; she was the overall winner of the 2016 Scottish International Youth Prize at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and as a result of winning the Yamaha Prize in the 2017 EPTA UK competition, Rose performed at St Martins in the Fields. As an overall winner of the Chetham’s concerto competition in February 2018, Rose was selected to perform the Ravel G major concerto with the Chetham’s symphony orchestra during the 2018-19 season. In 2018 Rose also won the Chopin and Beethoven prizes at Chetham’s and in 2019 she was overall winner of the junior intercollegiate Beethoven Piano Society of Europe competition. Also, in 2019 Rose was the overall winner of the 11th "Dora Pejacevich“ competition organised by EPTA Croatia. In 2022, Rose was awarded the Chopin Prize at the RNCM and later that year awarded the Silver Medal by the Musicians’ Company.

2018 saw her first commercial recording being issued by Divine Art, performing ‘Five Hebridean Dances’ by John McLeod and in January 2020, Rose recorded piano duets by the distinguished British composer, Edward Gregson, with her father for a new commercial recording on the Naxos label. In October 2025, Rose was featured on a new Divine Art album, recording the world premiere of his piano duets alongside her father, and songs with tenor James Gilchrist, which was showcased on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune.

In 2023, in collaboration with EVC Music Publications, a new anthology ‘22 nocturnes for Chopin’ which commissioned 22 female composers to write pieces inspired by Chopin was released. Since the launch at Steinway Hall, it has been played over the world, with its recent complete performance by Rose at King’s Place as part of the London Piano Festival 2024.

Rose is an avid chamber musician; playing in a piano trio, piano duo and with singers. She has performed major song cycles, including Schumann’s Liederkreis in the Manchester Song Festival. With her trio, they were awarded Nossek Prize at the RNCM for their performance of Arensky’s Trio no. 1. Rose has performed in Germany, Switzerland and the UK with violinist Esther Abrami.

Rose is extremely grateful to receive support from The Caird Trust, the Leverhulme Trust and she is a Talent Unlimted Artist.

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