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Recital at Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham

Written by Christopher Robson, Friday 18th March 2016

​Pianist Jayson Gillham, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham:

review by NottmPostEG | Posted: March 06, 2016

By William Ruff

Lots of smiles and warm applause greeted the end of Sunday morning’s recital by young Australian pianist Jayson Gillham. And it wasn’t simply a case of the audience liking his dazzling performance of a wide-ranging and demanding programme. They also liked him.

His technique may have been formidable, but his easy, friendly manner – together with his calm, unshowy keyboard style – immediately endeared him to his listeners.

Gillham began his programme with Handel’s Harmonious Blacksmith Suite, the famous final movement displaying much crisp articulation as ... Read more

PIAF recital broadcast on ABC Classic FM

Written by Christopher Robson, Friday 18th March 2016

My recital at the Perth International Arts Festival is to be broadcast on ABC Classic FM on the 10th March at 8pm

http://www.abc.net.au/classic/music-listings/?date=2016-03-10

Perth International Arts Festival - Chamber Music Weekend

Written by Christopher Robson, Friday 18th March 2016

Playing in the 2016 Chamber Music Weekend came a few days after his appearances in Nashville. He gave 3 recitals and a Masterclass in a weekend filled with the most beautiful music.

Jayson and the Tinalley String Quartet got a stunning review in the Australian

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London-based Australian pianist Jayson Gillham showed why his career has flourished in recent years, playing with a beautiful bell-like tone, a great sense of expressive lyricism, and virtuosity. Gillham joined members of the Tinalley quartet and Andrew Sinclair on bass for an edge-of-the-seat Trout Quintet.

This was posted by Perth International Arts Festival on ... Read more

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 with Maestro Asher Fisch and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra

Written by Christopher Robson, Friday 18th March 2016

Jayson gave three performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Nashville Symphony under the baton of Maestro Asher Fisch. A review in a local paper gives a vivid account of the reaction to his performance.

The highlight of the performance, for my money, was Gillham’s performance of Beethoven’s magnificent Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major. Tall, lanky with a thick top of sandy brown hair, the 29-year-old Gillham looks like a young Van ... Read more

Southern Cross Soloists at QPAC 2015

Written by Christopher Robson, Friday 18th March 2016

Jayson returned to Brisbane to perform with the Southern Cross Soloists on Sunday 22 November 2015.

In a celebratory year which has seen the Soloists collaborate with a record number of international artists, Great Legends will feature renowned operatic bass-baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes, who joins the Soloists for the first time in this special concert dedicated to great composers and legendary characters. Jayson performed with Teddy ... Read more

Recital 8th August 2015. Viree Classic, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal

Written by Christopher Robson, Friday 18th March 2016

Jayson gave his first recital in Montreal in the Cinquième Salle as part of his prize as the 2014 winner of the Montreal International Music Competition. The programme listed below included Chopin’s, Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, op. 58 which he recorded for his debut ABC Classics disc.

Cinquième Salle

Jayson Gillham, piano

Chabrier, Four Picturesque Pieces
Debussy, Études, Book II, No. 11: “Pour les arpèges composés”
Chopin, Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, op. 58

Jayson Gillham, the young Australian pianist who honed his skills in London, wowed the jury, the critics and the public at the 2014 Montreal International Music ... Read more