A piano recital will be performed at Welwyn Garden Concert Club this weekend.

Julian Trevelyan makes an eagerly awaited return to Welwyn Garden Concert Club at 7.30pm on Saturday, April 22.

Julian performs regularly throughout Europe and the UK and has been awarded an impressive number of prizes in British and European competitions, including the Second Grand Prize, the Audience Prize and the Mozart Prize at the Concours Geza Anda in Zurich in 2021.

He is also well known locally as he grew up in St Albans and attended Mid Herts Music School as a teenager. He was a finalist in the keyboard section of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition when he was 16.

The major works in Julian’s recital will be Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op.31 No.3 and the complete set of Chopin’s Preludes Op.28.

He will start the programme at St Francis Church with a little known but beautiful Polonaise, subtitled ‘Farewell to the Fatherland’, composed by Polish nobleman Michael Cleophas Oginski.

It is one of the earliest examples of Romantic music for the piano due to its subjective emotion and its nationalism.

Chopin’s Preludes Op.28 are a set of 24 short pieces, one in each of the 24 keys. Amongst them are some of Chopin’s best known piano pieces, ranging from those accessible to young pianists to those which require real virtuosity.

Balancing Chopin’s Preludes, Julian will also play Schoenberg’s Six Little Piano Pieces Op.19 (1911). These date from before Schoenberg’s ‘Twelve Tone’ compositions and are truly ‘little’ with one of them being only 18 bars long!

As with all the Concert Club’s performances, entrance is free to people under the age of 25, and tickets are available from www.wgconcertclub.org.uk and at the door on the evening of the concert.

The concert is at St Francis Church in Church Road.