Annual Local Young Performers

Nicholas Yang, born in 2010, is a music scholar at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford. Taking up the piano at a young age, Nicholas’s passion for the instrument has grown over the intervening years and has recently gained a place at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music where he learns with Konstantin Lapshin. Nicholas is also a passionate cellist and currently taught by Robin Thompson-Clarke.

Read more: Nicholas Yang, piano

Miriam Grant was born in 2007 and is a music scholar at Guildford High School, currently studying for her A-levels. Miriam started learning the violin at the age of six, studying with Natasha Boyarsky and then with Lutsia Ibragimova and Alison Rhind. She has been a student at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music since 2019. This season Miriam has given performances of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto both with her school orchestra and the Horsham Symphony Orchestra, and will give a solo recital at the Albert Hall’s Elgar Room in March.

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Rinchen Posel began her music studies in Singapore at the age of four, then continued her studies at the Bard College Preparatory Division in upstate New York. She studied there under Janara Khassenova for six years, and had the opportunity to perform several solo concerts. She achieved First Prize in the Young Pianist Division of the Nazareth University Piano Competition in 2020 and was a prizewinner at the King’s Peak Online International Music Competition and London Youth Piano Competition in 2021.

Read more: Rinchen Posel, piano

Inez Karlsson began playing the cello at the age of 6 and since the age of 10 she has been studying at the Royal College of Music Junior Department. For five years she studied with the late Michal Kaznowski, and from autumn 2023 she started to study with Professor Melissa Phelps. In 2023 at age 15 she made her concerto debut performing the Rococo Variations by Tchaikovsky with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in Sweden, conducted by Delyana Lazarova.

Read more: Inez Karlsson, cello

From early on in her career Margaret Roberts has worked as a piano accompanist, playing for some of the first BBC Young Musician of the Year competitions. As a music student at Brasenose College (Oxford) she specialised in piano performance and as organ exhibitioner, directed the chapel choir and played for college services and concerts.

Read more: Margaret Roberts, piano accompanist

Information

• Tickets are £25 each; seats are guaranteed but not reserved
• Car parking is included
• Snacks and drinks (included in ticket price) will be served during the interval
• Prices broadly cover the cost of musicians; your voluntary donation will help us to continue to run these recitals
• Recitals take place at Breinton, Heath House Road, Woking GU22 0RD - get directions
• Car parking is available from 7:00 pm; Doors will open at 7:15 pm; Performance at 7:30 pm
• Tickets must be purchased in advance from this website.

Booking Terms

• All ticket sales are final and non-refundable. This means that we cannot return your payment if you are unable to attend an event. Your payment will be refunded in full if we have to cancel a recital.  Donations are non-refundable.
• Tickets may be transferred to others. This means that you may give away or sell your tickets to someone else. Tickets are not transferable to another recital or another date.
• If you are unable to attend a recital that you have booked and paid for, we may be able to help you transfer your tickets to another member. If we successfully transfer your ticket to another member, an administrative charge equal to 30% of the ticket price will be payable.  This should be done no less than three days before the recital.
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