2018 Concerts

Nicholas Young completed his Bachelor of Music (Performance) with Daniel Herscovitch at Sydney Conservatorium in 2013 with First Class Honours and University Medal, and graduated from Master Solo Piano with Distinction at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg in 2015, studying with Claudius Tanski. Notable accolades include First Prize and Best Beethoven Performance of the 2015 ‘Grand Prize Virtuoso’ International Music Competition (London), Third Prize of the 15th Rome International Piano Competition (Soloists ‘B’), and Honourable Mentions at the 7th International Rosario Marciano Piano Competition (Vienna) and 1st International Cochran Piano Competition.  Nicholas has regularly concertised throughout Australia and Europe and appeared as soloist in concertos with the West Australian, Queensland, Adelaide and Willoughby Symphony Orchestras.

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Maggie is an emerging pianist from Sydney with a keen interest in piano pedagogy, chamber music and contemporary performance. She is currently a student at the Australian National Academy of Music and is a graduate of the Bachelor and Masters piano performance program at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. This year has been a busy year for Maggie thus far. Aside from being a featured artist in ANAM’s Debussy100 concerts, which are all broadcasted on ABC classic fm, she was recently invited to be in the Momentum Ensemble in collaboration with the Peninsula Specialist College. During this residency, she had the rare opportunity to mentor and perform alongside students with special needs in the Melbourne Recital Centre.

Maggie has participated in various music programs nationally and internationally. These include the 2012 and 2014 Icicle Creek Winter Piano Festival in Washington, US and the 2016 and 2017 AYO Chamber Players Program in partnership with the Musica Viva Festival. More recently, she was awarded with generous scholarship participate as one of the six pianists at the 2017 Meadowmount School of Music in New York, which is a rigorous seven week solo and chamber musicprogram.  

Aside from performing and teaching, Maggie enjoys collaborating with local Australian composers. She has premiered multiple works by Anthony Moles and recorded for Peggy Polias’s recent album, Picnic at Hanging Rock Piano Suite. In the next few years, Maggie hopes promote more works by active composers from China and introducing them to the Australian stage.

When Maggie is not behind the piano, you may find her exploring the ECM record label, conducting her next culinary experiment or watching a sci-fi film of some sort. Apart from music, she sustains on the trinity of coffee, cats and Chinese cuisine.