Julian Jacobson | One of Britain's most creative and distinctive pianists

Sunday April 6th 2025 – Beethoven Conversation Concert at Mill Hill Library

Julian’s much admired series of conversation concerts at Mill Hill Library featuring major Beethoven Sonatas continues on Sunday April 6th with the Appassionata and op 110. All the concerts are being live-streamed.
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Debussy and other French Music – April 10th 2025

Julian is expanding his current passion for French music with three concerts in London. On April 10th he plays a special programme in which Debussy’s Preludes Book 1 are surrounded by a selection of fascinating French pieces by composers from Rameau to the rarely played Georges Auric of Les Six.

Programme:
Rameau: Les tendres plaintes,
La Poule
Fauré: Valse-Caprice no.3 in G flat op 59
Debussy: Preludes Book 1
Satie: Gymnopédie no.1
Poulenc: Novelette no.1 in C
Auric: Three Pastorales
Chabrier: Bourrée fantasque

On June 12 and 19 he repeats his performance of Debussy’s complete 24 Preludes from last year, this time in two concerts, one book in each. In this series, “Debussy and his Influences”, he prefaces Debussy’s iconic masterpieces with pieces by six major composers who exerted a powerful influence on the French master.
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May 30th 2025 “Schiehallion” by Julian’s mother Margaret Lyell

Julian is delighted to announce that he will be playing the one-movement piano concerto “Schiehallion” by his mother Margaret Lyell in Birmingham on May 30. She wrote this as a 19-year old student at the Royal Academy of Music in 1929 and performed it with Sir Henry Wood conducting. For this first performance in modern times Julian has recopied the score, correcting any obvious mistakes and occasionally filling out the orchestration. In the same concert he will also play the great Robert Schumann Concerto.
You can read more about Margaret Lyell here
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12th and 19th June 2025 – Debussy and his Influences

Following his triumphant sold-out 2024 concert with Debussy’s complete Preludes, Julian returns to the 1901 Arts Club to play both books of these iconic pieces, this time in two separate concerts each prefaced by a connoisseur’s selection of short works by composers who exerted a major influence on the great French composer. On June 12 and 19 he repeats his performance of Debussy’s complete 24 Preludes from last year, this time in two concerts, one book in each. In this series, “Debussy and his Influences”, he prefaces Debussy’s iconic masterpieces with pieces by six major composers who exerted a powerful influence on the French master.
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