Solist Profile: Madeleine Brown

“Madeleine is a pianist of stature. She combines high intelligence with a profound feel for the music, so much so that she captures your attention and takes you on a voyage of musical discovery.” – Marios Papadopoulos.

Madeleine Brown is an emerging young pianist based in London. Having graduated with a BA in Music from Trinity College, Cambridge in June 2023, she now studies privately with Helen Krizos and Lora Dimitrova. Madeleine has previously learnt with esteemed pedagogues, including Dina Parakhina and Charles Owen, and is very grateful to receive coaching from Stephen Kovacevich and Adolfo Barabino. She looks forward to starting her postgraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music from September 2024 with Helen Krizos.

Madeleine has performed in prestigious venues including London’s Steinway Hall, King’s Place, St. James’ Sussex Gardens, Stoller Hall, Lansdowne Club, Mayfair, Southwark Cathedral, and the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, as well as the Bonn Schumannhaus and Köln Bechstein Centre. She has already gained great experience working with orchestras and was awarded 1st prize in the Cambridge University Concerto Competition. Recent concerto engagements include Rachmaninoff’s Paganini Rhapsody with Bertie Baigent, Mozart K. 414 with the London Mozart Players, Grieg with the Southampton Concert Orchestra in Romsey Abbey, and Rachmaninoff 2nd in Trinity College Chapel. Praised for her extensive repertoire list and memorisation ability, Madeleine performed the complete Goldberg Variations by heart as part of the Trinity College Music Society’s ‘Clavier-Übung’ concert series in 2021.

Madeleine was a participant in the Oxford Piano Festival in 2023, where she learnt from Stephen Kovacevich, Richard Goode and Marios Papadopoulos, and a few months later travelled to Brescia, Italy, where she received 1st prize in the Talent Music Master Courses solo competition. Madeleine has received masterclass tuition from several highly acclaimed pianists including Piotr Paleczney, Peter Donohoe, Freddy Kempf, Heribert Koch, Leon McCawley, Melvyn Tan, Martin Roscoe, and Noriko Ogawa.