Tuesday 30 April 2.00 pm
Ignas Maknickas (piano)
Schumann: Kinderszenen Op 15 (19')
(13 short pieces)
Carl Vine: Five Bagatelles (9')
Bortkiewicz: Preludes Op 33 (selections)
Chopin: Polonaise-Fantasy Op 61 (12')
In July 2021 Ignas Maknickas received “The Queen's Award for Excellence” as the highest-scoring graduate of the Royal Academy of Music. In 2023 Ignas became the winner of Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Auditions, had his debut recital at the Wigmore Hall and in January 2024 had his debut at the BBC Radio 3 programme "In Tune" with Sean Rafferty. Ignas has taken First Prize at the XIX Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Youth in Szafarnia, First Prize at the XX Piano Competition “Young Virtuoso” in Zagreb, Third Prize at the Aarhus Piano Competition and, in 2021, was the semi-finalist of the Vendome Prize. 2024-25 highlights include solo recitals at the Wigmore Hall in London, Konzerthaus Berlin, Brighton Dome, King's Lynn, Fidelio Cafe and others.
Born in California in 1998, Ignas was raised in Lithuania. In 2017, graduating from the National M.K. Ciurlionis School of Art in Vilnius, he was honoured by the President of Lithuania, H.E. Dalia Grybauskaite. With his sister and three brothers the talented Maknickas Family Ensemble has represented Lithuania on National Television and at State Occasions. Ignas completed his Bachelor and Master of Arts programmes at the Royal Academy of Music on full scholarship under Professor Joanna MacGregor. In September 2023 he commenced the Advanced Diploma Programme with Professor MacGregor, also on full scholarship. He is a Leverhulme Arts Scholar, a recipient of the ABRSM Scholarship Award, the Imogen Cooper Music Trust Scholarship, Munster Trust Mark James Award, Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation Award, Tillett Trust and Colin Keer Trust Award and Hattori Foundation Award. He is an Artist of the Munster Trust Recital Scheme. As a soloist he has appeared at the Steinway Hall in London, Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Charlottenborg Festival Hall in Copenhagen, Ed Landreth Hall in Fort Worth, Lithuanian National Philharmonic in Vilnius and Kinross House in Scotland.
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