Maria Marchant
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“…All phenomenally played, with Marchant’s chameleon-like ability to inhabit each work something to marvel at…”
Arts Desk
“…She brought my music alive with great sensitivity and made it glow in a way I had not imagined possible…”
Roderick Williams OBE
“..delivered by Marchant with a richness of musicianship that haunts the memory…”
Malcolm Hayes, BBC Music Magazine
Award winning pianist Maria Marchant performs frequently as recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician for numerous festivals, music societies and at leading venues. A former BBC Music Magazine Rising Star, her performances have been featured on BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’, WMNR Radio in the USA and Premier Christian Radio in addition to TV appearances. Maria often collaborates with contemporary composers and her innovative lockdown project ‘7 Notes in 7 Days at 7pm’ ran for 60 weeks, showcasing piano premieres by composers including a work by Roderick Williams OBE in weekly livestreams on social media. The project was awarded a Classical Music Digital Award, featuring in Gramophone Music Blog as well as on Radio 3 and in international press. Maria’s debut SOMM Recordings CD, Echoes of Land & Sea, was released in 2017 and her ground-breaking second album for SOMM, Bantock Rediscovered, reached No. 15 in the Official Classical Chart, featuring works never before recorded on disc. Maria won numerous piano competitions at Trinity Laban and the Conducting Prize before gaining the MMus in Advanced Piano Performance at the Royal College of Music as an RCM Hilda Anderson Deane Scholar and BBC Performing Arts Fund Award recipient. She won the International Hindemith Competition, Berlin and has performed at Wigmore and Southbank.
Maria is a member of the Stradivarius Piano Trio and is pianist-in-residence at the Shipley Arts Festival; she is a Christian and directs the choir at All Souls Church, Langham Place. Recent concerto performances have seen Maria perform Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue at Prom Praise at the Royal Albert Hall with the All Souls Orchestra and with Worthing Symphony Orchestra in addition to Shostakovich’s 2nd Piano Concerto with Ealing Symphony Orchestra.