about this event
Lithuanian pianist, Milda Daunoraite studied piano performance at the Purcell School and is currently continuing her studies with Tessa Nicholson at the Royal Academy of Music with a full fees scholarship.
Milda has performed extensively throughout Europe for many eminent music societies, festivals and at key events. She has appeared in such venues as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Musikhuset Aarhus in Denmark and the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva. Since she was nine years old, Milda has performed every year in a Christmas concert held in the Dassault Hotel in the Champs Elysées, Paris. Some of these concerts have been broadcast by Mezzo & TV5 Monde.
Milda has also performed at the EMMA World Summit of Nobel Prize Peace Laureates in Warsaw and performed the fourth V. Bacevičius Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra as a result of having EMCY publish her profile on their website.
She is a prize winner of numerous national and international competitions including First Prize in the international V. Krainev Piano Competition in Kharkov, Ukraine; the ‘Jury‘ Prize in the Pianale International Academy and Competition; and the Purcell School solo and concerto competition which led to performances at Wigmore Hall and at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre where she played Ravel‘s Piano Concerto in G.
Milda is supported by SOS Talents foundation – Michel Sogny, the Keyboard Charitable Trust and is a recipient of the ABRSM Scholarship Award.
Programme
Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F♯ minor, Op. 11
Chopin: Scherzo No. 4, Op. 54, in E major
Debussy: Images Book 2, L. 111
