Llyr Williams (piano)

About Llyr Williams

Our last concert of the season is by pianist Llyr Williams, who brings extraordinary musical intelligence to all he undertakes. He made his 2005 Proms debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and appeared with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields at the Barbican’s Mostly Mozart festival. He returned to the Edinburgh International Festival last year for the fourth time and gave an extraordinary and memorable performance of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata, also appearing with the Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vanska. Born in 1976 in North Wales, he read music at Queen’s College, Oxford, graduating in 1998 with a first class alpha degree. He went on to study under a postgraduate scholarship at the Royal Academy, where he won every prize and award.