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Our next concert:

Saturday 18th May 2024, 7.30pm
St Laurence's Church, Ludlow

Claire Tocknell : Leader
Jonathan Lyness : Conductor
Gamal Khamis : Piano

Kodály: Dances of Galánta
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16
Nielsen: Symphony No 1 in G minor, Op. 7

Gamal Khamis has performed at Carnegie Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Sage Gateshead, as well as all over Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. He made his debut at the Wigmore Hall at the age of ten, and he gained a degree in Mathematics from Imperial College London before completing his formal education at the Royal College of Music, where he now works with the Vocal Faculty and the Junior Department. He has won major prizes at the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition and the Ferrier Awards, and he has premiered works by many of Britain’s leading composers including Eleanor Alberga, Daniel Kidane, Amy Bryce, Shiva Feshareki and George Stevenson. He has performed concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, R. Schumann, Grieg, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky and Finzi with orchestras all over the UK, and he is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3 In Tune, where he has performed alongside Sol Gabetta, Vilde Frang and Erwin Schrott.

Gamal is a Samling Artist, a member of the award-winning Lipatti Piano Quartet, and a coach and pianist on DEBUT’s Horizon Project. Gamal performs regularly at both the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival in Colorado, USA, and the Marryat Players Chamber Music Festival in London, and he also teaches at Oxenfoord International Summer Academy. His recording of works by Richard Strauss alongside the actor Christopher Kent was released by SOMM Recordings in 2022, to critical acclaim.

“The highlight of the evening was pianist Gamal Khamis, whose sensitivity and imagination shone out of his three performances” Financial Times

“Formidable keyboard skills” The Times

“The performances were so remarkable” The Telegraph

“Khamis has the World literally at his fingertips” Classical Source