George Campbell

UNITED KINGDOM

George Campbell, born in Warrington, England in 2002, is a pianist at the Royal College of Music, London. He is currently studying with Jianing Kong as a Hilda Houssart Award Holder supported by the Henry Wood Accommodation Trust.

George has performed with an orchestra the first movement of Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and the Scherzo from Henry Litolff’s Concerto symphonique No. 4. Recently, he was awarded a Special Mention in the Abingdon Music Festival Concerto Competition in Oxford, England.

In 2018, George was part of a quintet playing Darius Milhaud’s La création du monde in a festival at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. The following year, he also performed in a piano trio in the Purcell Room, London.

PROGRAM

Online Round
Bach Prelude and Fugue in A flat major, WTC II
Haydn Piano Sonata in C major Hob. XVI/50
Chopin Étude Op. 10 No. 7
Scriabin Étude Op. 8 No. 12
Brahms Variations on a Theme of Paganini Op. 35, Book II

Semifinal
Enescu Piano Suite No. 2 in D major Op. 10, Des cloches sonores
Bach/Kabalevsky Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 538, Dorian
Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D. 784
Medtner Piano Sonata No. 9 in A minor Op. 30, During the War 1914-17

Final
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Op. 30