Julian Miles Trevelyan (born 1998) is a British pianist and musicologist who won international competitions, such as the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in Paris in 2015 at age 16.
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Life and career
Education
He is son and heir apparent of Sir Peter John Trevelyan, 6th baronet. Trevelyan has been home-schooled. His music teachers included Elizabeth Altman, Christopher Elton, Patrick Hemmerlé and Rita Wagner for piano and Catherine Manson for violin.
He studied at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Rena Shereshevskaya supported by a scholarship from the Or du Rhin Foundation and Patrick Masure, where he was awarded the Diplôme Supérieure de Composition in 2018 and the Diplôme Supérieure de Concertiste (Piano) in 2019. He also studied for a musicology degree at the University of Oxford.
Julian Trevelyan has studied in masterclasses by Stephen Kovacevich and Menahem Pressler, Paul Badura-Skoda and Jean-Marc Luisada at the Musikverein in 2019, Maria João Pires, in 2017, Peter Feuchtwanger, 2015 and Margaret Fingerhut, 2014.
Concerts
Trevelyan has travelled widely to give solo and orchestral concerts. These include Beethoven's Piano Sonatas and Diabelli Variations, Ullman’s 7th Sonata and Shostakovich's piano sonatas. He has performed piano concertos by Brahms, Howard Blake, Bartók, Lutosławski, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Mozart.
Competitions
Trevelyan has won several major classical music competitions, often being the youngest to compete.
Trevelyan was a finalist in the keyboard section of the 2014 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition.
In April 2015, Trevelyan took the Grand Prize in the "Concours Festival pour le Répertoire Pianistique Moderne" (Competitive Festival for the Contemporary Piano Repertoire, or C.F.R.P.M.) in Paris, including the prize for the best interpretation of a work by Maurice Ravel.
In May 2015, he took second place and the Mocsari Prize (given by Károly Mocsári) in the Ile de France International Piano Competition in Maisons-Laffitte.
Concours Long-Thibaud Crespin
On 27 October 2015, at age 16, Trevelyan became the youngest prize-winner in the piano category of the Concours International Long-Thibaud-Crespin in Paris. He won the second Grand Prize, the first prize not being awarded that year, as well as the Prize awarded by Prince Albert II of Monaco for the best interpretation of a concerto; the Long Piano prize is one of the four major international piano competitions.
In November 2015, he was the winner of the Young Pianist of the North, competition, held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
In 2016, Trevelyan continued his foray into international piano competition by coming second in the "Kissinger Klavierolymp" (Bad Kissingen Piano Olympics) for young pianists, as part of the Kissinger Sommer, and was again a finalist in the BBC Young Musician competition.
In 2017, Trevelyan participated in the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, in which he reached Stage II, the highest placing for a British pianist. Later in the year, he won the "Luitpold Prize" of the Kissinger Sommer festival. In October, he won second prize and the audience vote in the Dudley International Piano Competition.