The very young British pianist Julian Trevelyan seduces his audience

By Jean-louis LORENZO
 

“He already has the dexterity to play like the greatest!”
 
It’s one of those musical days we like so much in Medoc where, over the seasons, various talents follow one another from castle to castle. No doubt that nice music fits perfectly in the heart of vineyards. Actually, for a few days in Bordeaux, in the wonderful and original Cité du Vin whose success confirms as days go by, a second important art exhibition in held until the end of June 2018. It reveals all the richness of the bonds between music and wine through a sensitive, sound and visual journey. It gathers the arts of painting, music or scene. Musical and literary works were lent for the occasion by great French and international institutions. (Pluton Magazine will soon write about this event).
 

 
This Sunday 18th March 2018, at the Château Branaire-Ducru in Saint-Julien Beychevelle, Julian Trevelyan, the smiling blue-eyed talented young pianist was eagerly expected. The day started before the early-afternoon rehearsal, around noon around a laid table in one of the outbuildings, the luminous and pretty Orangeraie room. Of course, on the table there was a tempting bottle offered by the Château! Even with moderation, the young man wasn’t tempted, work coming first. Only his father, who always accompanies him, accepted to have sip. Around 2pm, the young man sat at the piano, wearing a tracksuit, before putting on his scene suit later on for the concert.
 

 
At 16, 2nd Grand Prix of the Long-Thibaut-Crespin Concours
It was in 2015. A prestigious award indeed! Everywhere he goes, the young man wins awards, such as the best interpretation of the concerto. Earlier this year, he won the first prize and the Mocsari Prize (Île-de-France); the Grand Prix of the Concours Festival for the Répertoire Pianistique Moderne (Paris); in 2016, in Germany, during the Kissinger Klavier Olymp, the second prize; during the same festival, the following year, the Luitpold prize awarded to the most promising young artist of the festival; and again in 2017, with the CBSO at Symphony Hall, with which he plays, Julian received not less than two prizes and his performance was recorded (listen: dipc.org.uk).