Repertoire

Nicola Meecham

piano

Nicola Meecham

piano

Sample Repertoire List

Concerti

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 in C major

Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor

Piano Concerto No 4 in G major

Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor

Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor

Piano Concerto No 2 in E major

Debussy Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra

Fauré Ballade

Gershwin Piano Concerto in F major

Rhapsody in Blue

Ginastera Piano Concerto No 1

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Solo - Baroque and Classical

Bach Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV 904

Beethoven Sonata in C minor Op 10 No 1

Sonata in C sharp minor Op 27 No 2 Moonlight

Sonata in F sharp major Op 78

J L Dušek Sonata in E flat major Op 44 L’adieu

Haydn Fantasie in C major Hob XVII:4

Sonata in A major Hob XVI:26

Sonata in E major Hob XVI:31

19th century and late Romantic

Balakirev Sonata in B flat minor

Brahms Intermezzi Op 117

Intermezzi Op 118 No 2

Fantasien Op 116 No 3

Sonata in F minor Op 5

Chopin Andante and Grande Polonaise

Ballades Nos 1, 2, 3 and 4

Barcarolle

20th and 21st century

Adams China Gates

Tom Armstrong Morning Music

Bartók Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm

Copland Four Piano Blues

Ellen Drewe Night Scurry

Giles Easterbrook 25 Variations

“No praise could be high enough for such an adventurous and challenging programme… played by Nicola Meecham with brilliant dexterity and musical devotion.”

Bryce Morrison/The Gramophone

July 2024

Nicola performs a solo recital in the Menuhin Room for Portsmouth Piano Circle. The programme includes Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata, Preludes by Boris Pasternak and Sonata No 2 by Prokofiev.

www.musicinportsmouth.co.uk

December 2023

In response to the war in Ukraine, Nicola curates and performs a programme at Burgh House in London together with Penny Driver (cello) and Dafydd Chapman (piano). Entitled Schubert – A concert for Ukraine, the programme features perennial favourite the Arpeggione Sonata, Schubert’s monumental late Sonata in A major D.959 and his charming piano duo, the Rondo in A major for four hands.

www.burghhouse.org.uk

July 2023

Nicola records music by contemporary composer Graham Nathan Harris at the University of Surrey. Among the pieces she is recording are his evocative Mountain of the Sun, and the driving New York City, which Graham dedicated to Nicola. Listen to Graham’s music HERE

July 2022

Nicola records with Trifarious (Tim Redpath, clarinet/saxophone, and Rachel Calaminus, violin/viola) at the University of Surrey in a brand new album of works written by leading UK composers, including Tom Armstrong, Barbara Thompson and Stephen Goss. The album is scheduled for release in 2025.

www.trifarious.com

March 2022

Nicola performs Chopin in a private event at Steinway Hall, London.

November 2021

Nicola performs Beethoven’s Concerto No 3 with the Mid Somerset Orchestra in an all-Beethoven programme in a delayed celebration due to lockdown of the composer’s 250th birthday. Also featured is his overture The Creatures of Prometheus and Haydn’s Symphony No 101 The Clock.

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September 2021

Nicola performs Scriabin’s rarely heard Piano Concerto in F sharp minor with the Bristol Classical Players, conducted by Tom Gauterin at St Georges Bristol. Also included in the programme are two ever-popular works by Tchaikovsky – his Polonaise from ‘Eugene Onegin’ and his Symphony No 5 in E minor.

www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk

December 5th 2019

Nicola gives a lunchtime piano recital at St George’s Bristol performing Russian piano music. The programme features Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, in the virtuosic transcription by Guido Agosti, Tchaikovsky’s youthful Sonata in C Sharp Minor and rarities by Stanchinsky and Borsi Pasternak.

www.somm-recordings.com

July 2019

Nicola visits the Sufei Arts Academy in Shenzhen, China, to hold piano masterclasses and perform four-hand piano music with Lauretta Bloomer.

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June 2019

Nicola performs Grieg’s ever-popular Piano Concerto in A Minor with the Bath Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eugene Monteith at the Wiltshire Music Centre. Entitled Friends in the North, the programme also features A Walk to the Paradise Garden by Delius, and Johan Halvorsen’s rarely heard Symphony no. 1 in C Minor.

https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/june-2019-concert/

November 2018

Nicola performs Morning Music written especially for her by composer Tom Armstrong on his recently released disc of world premiere recordings on Resonus Classics entitled Dance Maze. The piece was written in memory of mutual friend and guitarist Richard Hand who died in 2011.

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November 2017

Nicola performs Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor with the Bristol Symphony Orchestra at Bristol’s famed St George’s Brandon Hill. The programme, entitled Romantic Masterworks, also features Delius’s Walk to the Paradise Garden, Mahler’s Adagietto from Symphony No 5 and ends with the intensely lyrical and deeply felt Symphony No 4 in E minor by Brahms.

Thursday 15th June 2017 The Warehouse Waterloo

Voices of Night and Day

Nicola performs a recital of contemporary music for solo piano touching on themes of night and day, life and death, musical space as bounded by the extremes of the piano keyboard and elasticity of time.

World premières from Tom Armstrong, Graham Yeloff and Robert Percy stand alongside Sally Beamish's rarely heard Voices in Silence and Graham Fitkin's energetic Relent. A new work from Ellen Drewe, currently studying at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, completes the programme.

Refreshments will be served after the concert when there will be an opportunity to meet the artists.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/voices-of-night-and-day-tickets-33430842550?aff=oddtdtcreator

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