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Khanh Nhi Luong (Vietnam)
Julian Trevelyan (United Kingdom)

These competitors will perform concertos with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra under their Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan on 20 and 21 September. For
the first time, the Finals of the competition will relocate outside of Leeds due to renovations
at the Leeds Town Hall. The host venue for the Finals will be the historic St George’s Hall in
Bradford, known for its excellent ‘shoebox’ acoustic, and coincides with Bradford’s status as
the ‘UK City of Culture in 2025’.

The winner of the First Prize and Dame Fanny Waterman Gold Medal will be awarded a cash
prize of £30,000, concerto engagements with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
(including a reprisal of their winning performance at the Glasshouse International Centre for
Music on Sunday 22 September), Wigmore Hall debut and recitals across the UK,
international tours with Steinway Prize Winner Concerts Network and Global Music Network,
and more.

Second and Third Prize winners also receive a substantial cash prize, concert engagements
and more, and important career-development advice is offered to all competitors as part of
the Leeds’ innovative Competitor+ programme. One of the top three prize winners will also
receive a debut recording with Warner Classics and worldwide management with Askonas
Holt.

Winners will join an illustrious list of past medallists, including Alessio Bax, Federico
Colli, Sunwook Kim, Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia and Mitsuko Uchida. Recent Gold
Medallists Alim Beisembayev (2021) and Eric Lu (2018) are now well-established

international figures of classical music.
Other prizes to be announced at the Finals include the inaugural Alexandra Dariescu Award,
which will be awarded to a pianist for an outstanding performance of a work by a woman
composer from any round of the Competition. The medici.tv Audience Prize – the only prize

decided by the public – will also be announced at the Finals. Online viewers can vote for any
pianist from the Second Round to the Finals, and the winner will be given a future broadcast
performance on the platform. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society Award will also be
awarded to the competitor who best communicates contemporary music during the
competition, resulting in the commissioning of a new work for that competitor to be
performed in a future Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society series.

FINALS Competition Schedule 2024 (St George's Hall, Bradford), 20 & 21 September

Friday 20 September
Julian Trevelyan
Bartók Concerto No 3

Kai-Min Chang
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Beethoven Concerto No 4