Sunday May 18th at 3pm
Organist Lachlan Redd

Programme

• Prelude and Fugue in e
  JS Bach (BWV 548)
• Prelude, Fugue and Variation
  Cesar Franck (op18)
• Prelude and Fugue in c
  Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (op37)
• Tu es Petra
  Henry Mulet
• Benedictus
  Max Reger (op 59 no 9)
• Finale from Second Symphony
  Marcel Dupré

Biography

Lachlan Redd graduated from the Manhattan School of Music in New York in 1999, with a Masters degree in piano performance, as a scholarship holder and a recipient of the Queen’s Trust for Young Australians. His undergraduate degree was from the Australian National University, obtaining a Bachelor of Music degree with first
class Honours. He was awarded The University Medal in 1997. In 2001 & 2002 Lachlan held a full scholarship at the Australian National Academy of Music. In 2003 he was appointed Nancy Curry Organ Scholar at St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, where he currently holds the position of Assistant Organist. In addition, Lachlan is organist to the Chapel Choir at Melbourne Grammar School and is on the piano staff of Scotch College.

Over the last ten years Lachlan has been invited to participate in some of the world’s most important piano competitions including: Scottish (1998), Leeds (2000), Rachmaninov (2002) & Bechstein (2006). He has twice been awarded the Bach Prize at consecutive Australian National Piano Awards. He won First Prize at the Fourth International Youth Music Festival Virtuosi of the Year 2000 Competition, held in St Petersburg. This culminated in a performance with the Tchaikovsky Chamber Orchestra in the historic Marinsky Theatre. He was a finalist in the inaugural ABC TV Quest Competition and won the 1996 Keyboard Finals of the Young Performers Awards, appearing on ABC TV in the grand finals of both events. That year, aged 22, he replaced Bruno Leonard Gelber, without rehearsal, in two performances of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3 with the Melbourne Symphony
Orchestra.

Since then, Lachlan has appeared as both recitalist and concerto artist for the ABC in simulcasts on ABC TV and ABC Classic FM. He has appeared with most of the ABC orchestras, including the Adelaide, Melbourne, Tasmanian, Queensland Symphony and Philharmonic orchestras and with leading conductors including Vladimir
Verbitsky Michael Halasz, Nicholas Braithwaite, Janos Furst and Yan Pascal Tortellier.

He has been invited to festivals and performed in the United States of America, United Kingdom, Belgium (with orchestra), Austria, Germany & Russia.

Lachlan has been engaged as a soloist for The Australian Ballet in performances of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto 2 in Adelaide and Melbourne this year (2008).

Reviews & Press Releases

AUSSIE OUTSIDER TAKES RUSSIA’S PRIZE FOR YOUNG PIANISTS

"An unknown young Australian has astonished the musical might of Russia by walking off with the country’s premier prize for young pianists. . .. . .took the prize from a field of 57 mainly Russian competitors. . . . . .at the Fourth International Youth Music Festival – Virtuosi of the Year 2000 in St Petersburg last week. . . . ."
The Australian - Laurie Strachan

PIANIST STRIKES SUPERB BEETHOVENIAN BALANCE

"Lachlan Redd is a superb pianist. In Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto, the highlight of Sunday’s concert, he demonstrated a maturity of conception, quite beyond his undergraduate years and a breathtakingly impressive technique. . . . ."
The Australian - Malcolm Gillies

DRAMATIC SAVE

"There was drama at the Melbourne Symphony last Friday afternoon when visiting Argentinean pianist Bruno Leonardo Gelber suddenly took ill and could not perform Rachmaninov’s demanding Piano Concerto No 3 in the Concert Hall that night. Lachlan Redd, winner of the 1996 Keyboard Final of the ABC’s Young Performer of the Year awards, stepped into the breach and played without any rehearsal with the orchestra." He was given a standing ovation for his performances, and both the Melbourne Symphony and The Age have been fielding calls ever since from audience members praising his talent.”
The Age, July 1996

“Redd’s technique is extraordinary. He is one of the quickest pianists you are likely to come across. . . . . . . .he had the measure of the Russian composer’s hand-crunching piece, revelling in it’s incessant cascades of technical
display.”
The Age – Clive O’Connell