Welcome to the Elena Cobb Star Prize Festival 2023!

Key facts

  • 19 June, Monday
    Royal Albert Hall Elgar Room, London
  • 12.00 – 15.30 Rehearsals at the Elgar Room
    Times to be confirmed nearer the date of the event
  • 16.30 – Doors for Performance1
    17.00 – 18.30 Recital and the Awards Ceremony
  • 19.15 – Doors Performance 2
    19.45 – 21.15 Recital and the Awards Ceremony
  • Book individual practice at Peregrine’s Pianos > 

Order Audience Tickets

  1. Please order no more than 3 audience tickets.
  2. Make sure to order the right tickets – scroll to check the Programmes below. 
  3. Collect your tickets from the Albert Hall Box Office on the day of the event.
  4. Keep the order number for ticket collection.
  5. The performer ticket is included in the Performance Registration fee.
  6. All payments are non-refundable – tap for full Terms & Conditions >
 

 

Order Audience Tickets

Performance

 

No

Name(s)

Title

Audio

1

Allyn Xiong, Jeremy Zhao & Richard Hu

At the Drop of a Hat

YES

2

Wenzhang Vazquez

Cloud Seven Latin Cobb

YES

3

Chenlyvia Xiong

Tell it to the Clouds, Hammond

YES

4

Olivia Hu

Once Upon a Frozen Winter, Hammond

YES

5

Bryant Li

London Stomp Sam Wedgwood

YES

6

Olivia Grace Starling

Night of the Vampires, Hammond

YES

7

John Patterson

Rock-n-Roll, Birchall

YES

8

Roman Hurmak

Troll Forest Tango, Hammond

YES

9

Daniel Darmograi

Good Mood Boogie, Hammond

YES

10

Roman Hurmak

Troll Forest Tango, Hammond

YES

11

Daniel Darmograi

Good Mood Boogie, Hammond

YES

12

Kristina Kirakosyan

Lavender Haze, Cobb

YES

13

Deedeh Rouhani

 

 

14

Alexandra Barlow-Smith

Nocturne Agnieszka Lasko

YES

15

Joshua Cox

New York Nights, Martin

 

16

Yaniv Rakovitski Katz

Sitting Mlada, Saratsky

 

17

Austin Niu

Nocturne in Ebm La ballerine solitaire Stephenie Leung

 

18

Michael Lee

Monet, Lynch

 

19

Tanmay Gokul

Bebop, Birchall

YES

20

Esme Powell

Shrovetide Fair, Lynch

YES

21

Laura Kesiak

Echoes from the Chopin’s Land, Kesiak

 

22

Helen Jiang

Nocturne Reflections, Wright

 

23

Amir Pedersoli

Take a Look, Wedgwood

YES

24

Henry Pritchard

Blue Lagoon Nikki Iles

YES

25

Mackenzie Wilkes

Star Dust

YES

26

Evangeline Lee

Hummingbird Higgins

 

27

Alyra Nguyen

Marooner’s Rock Nikki Iles

YES

28

Barad Abdollapour

Rajarata Litten

YES

29

Aiden Smith

Shark Soup, Wedgwood

YES

30

Mocha Fenton

Undercover Blues, Proudler

YES

31

Owen Heidenreich

Empty Rooms, Wedgwood’

YES

32

Shirley Chen

Willows on the Water, Litten

YES

33

Sheldon Chen

Mosquito and Me, Litten

 

34

Elijah Butterworth

Cut to the Chase, Iles

YES

35

Jingbo Zhou (William) & Maximilian Oberdan

Carefree in Rio Wedgwood

YES

Performance 2

 

No

Name(s)

Title

Audio

1

Marcus & Joseph Ip

At the Drop of a Hat, The Wedgwoods

YES

2

Sophia & Ethan Zeng

Tic Toc the Croc, Iles

YES

3

Arwen Trinh & Ella Su

Bank Holiday Boogie, Hammond

YES

4

Sophia Thompson & Ozan Leo Solak

Pink Flamingos, Iles

YES

5

Emilia Yakubyk & Jacob Davidov

Carefree in Rio, Wedgwood

YES

6

Elena Schwarz

Mr Pickwick Wedgwood

YES

7

Alexis Limary

Blue River, Cobb

YES

8

Mila Limary

Stakeout! Proudler

YES

9

Alanna Crouch

Nocturne

 

10

Katie Xie

Nocturne in Bm, Tyler

 

11

Isabella Totty

Prelude No.7, Dubova

 

12

Samuel Lake

Backyard Boogie, Hammond

YES

13

Amelia Yuan

Renoir, Preludes No.1, Lynch

 

14

Freddie Wright

Piano Ballad, Birchall

YES

15

Luca Disha

Nocturne No. 1, Proudler

 

16

Rachel He

Nocturne No. 3, Proudler

 

17

Alejandro Barnett

Grumps, Wedgwood

YES

18

Alexandra Acosta

Mirrors, Wedgwood

YES

19

Alejandro Gutierrez

Undercover Blues, Proudler

YES

20

Ana Sofia Palomino

Empty Rooms, Wedgwood

YES

21

Guillermo Duarte

Time to Catch a Train

YES

22

Mariana Duarte

Hand in Hand, Hammond

YES

23

Mariana Escamilla

Shark Soup, Wedgwood

YES

24

Mariana Soacha

Always on your Side, Hammond

YES

25

Laura Prada

Running Free, Hamond

YES

26

Tomás Prada

Bebop, Birchall

YES

27

Luciana Orellana

Blue Onions, Wedgwood

YES

28

Daniel Abramov

Ukrainian Bells, Cobb

YES

29

Maksim Yasau

Babylon, Cobb

YES

30

Chloe Chan

Alley Stomp Blues, Martin

YES

31

Lukas yim

Super Sleuth, Wedgwood

YES

32

Avery Sun Liu

Tea Dance, Iles

YES

33

Queenie Ding

Smee, Iles

YES

34

Kingston Wang

Cato vs Closesau, Wedgwood

YES

35

Theresa Yung

Broadway Boogie Woogie, Martin

 

36

Ivan y chen

Rock-n-Roll, Birchall

YES

 

Audio for Performance 1

 

Audio for Performance 2

 

Media partners

International Piano magazine, one of the leading international music publications (Mark Allen Group), has become our Media Partner, offering our event more comprehensive media coverage and a prestigious partnership. We are tremendously excited and looking forward to continuing to promote performance opportunities for young pianists playing music by living composers at the Royal Albert Hall.

About festival

In recent years pianist, teacher, composer, entrepreneur and educator extraordinaire Elena Cobb has made a huge international impact on young pianists. Her name and her extraordinary festival at London’s Royal Albert Hall have attracted considerable attention – and with good reason! Cobb is in the business of allowing young pianists the confidence and energy to fly, to express their enthusiasm and desire to communicate.

Elena Cobb Star Prize Festival at the Royal Albert Hall is a unique event with performance opportunities for young pianists from around the world. It was first introduced in 2014 when Elena Cobb began working with the UK and overseas music festivals. Today, many of them cherish the opportunity to perform at the annual Elena Cobb Star Prize at the Royal Albert Hall Elgar Room on the red piano that used to belong to Sir Elton John himself! 

Memories of your performance at the Elena Cobb Star Prize Festival on the world-famous stage will stay with you forever. It will build your confidence, character and self-esteem and one day, when you are older, you will be telling your own children: 

“When I was your age, I played the piano at the Royal Albert Hall.” 

Elena Cobb
Founder 

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