About this Event
Pianist,
Malaysian pianist Magdalene Ho came to international attention after winning the Clara Haskil Piano Competition in 2023. Formerly a pupil of Patsy Toh at the Purcell School, she currently studies with Dmitri Alexeev at the Royal College of Music on a full scholarship. This season’s highlights include concerto performances with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, SWR Symphonieorchester along with recitals at the Fränkisches-Musiktage Alzenau, Teatime Classics in the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, “Concerts J. S. Bach” Lutry and a debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milan. In summer 2024, she was featured by Jed Distler in International Piano Magazine’s series “One to Watch”.
In September 2023, Magdalene Ho won the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Vevey along with receiving the Audience Prize, Young Critics’ Prize and Children’s Corner Prize. In November 2024, she won the International German Piano Award.Last year, Magdalene performed chamber music concerts with such artists as Simon Trpčeski, Daniel Müller-Schott, Pierre Genisson, Noa Wildschut or Marc Coppey. Since 2024, she is mentored by the Vevey Spring Classic and in connection with the Festival she will be performing this season with Veronika Eberle, Maxim Rysanov, Daniel Müller-Schott, Dietrich Henschel as well as Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala under Wilson Hermanto.
Magdalene has been studying with Dmitri Alexeev at the RCM since September 2022, where she is a Gordon Calway Stone Scholar. She is also sponsored by the Weir Award via the Keyboard Charitable Trust.
Pianist, Misha Kaploukhii
Misha Kaploukhii is a graduate of the Moscow Gnessin College of Music, where he studied under Mikhail Egiazaryan. He has completed his undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music and is now pursuing a Master of Performance under the guidance of Professor Ian Jones.
Misha’s studies are supported by many awards. He is honoured to be one of the recipients of the LSO Conservatoire Scholarships 2024/26 and is a Musicians’ Company Lambert Scholar, supported by the Maureen and Harold Adams Scholarship. Misha has also been awarded Hattori Foundation Senior Award 2025/26, an ABRSM Scholarship and grants from the Drake Calleja Trust and Eileen Rowe Musical Trust. His career is supported with the help of Keyboard Charitable Trust, the Razumovsky Trust, the Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation and Talent Unlimited.
Recent prizes include the RCM Concerto Competition, the International Ettlingen Piano Competition, the Hopkinson Gold Medal at the Chappell Medal Piano Competition, and both the First and Audience Prizes in the UK Sheepdrove Piano Competition.
In October 2024, Misha was invited to work with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko, stepping in as the solo pianist for a rehearsal of Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto. Misha has performed in the UK, Italy, and France in venues including St Mary’s Perivale, Razumovsky Recital Hall, Leighton House, Cadogan Hall, and the Steinway Halls in London and Milan. In September 2023, he was invited to perform Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances at the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival, accompanying Fiona Maddocks’ discussion of her book, Rachmaninoff in Exile.
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Schumann op.6 Davidsbündlertänze
Misha Kaploukhii, piano
Schubert Piano Sonata No.18 D. 894 in G major
Magdalene Ho, piano
Schumann- Abendlied
Misha Kaploukhii and Magdalene Ho
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, Sloane Street, London, United Kingdom
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