Rising Stars Showcase
Gabriel Power piano
Maya Broman Crawford-Phillips violin
Saturday 18th January 2025 1:00 pm
Lea Barn, Winter Hill, Cookham Dean, SL6 9TW
by kind permission of Deborah and Robert Behrman
In previous years we have presented a concert featuring winners of the Windsor and Maidenhead Symphony Orchestra's Young Musicians Competition. These have included Martin James Bartlett (piano) who went on to win BBC Young Musician 2014, and Euan Miller (oboe) who was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician Competition 2021, having won the Woodwind class.
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This year our Rising Stars are Gabriel Power (piano) and Maya Broman Crawford-Phillips (violin) with Rebecca You (piano).
Programme to include
Rachmaninov: Prelude in G#minor
Mozart: Piano Sonata in F major
Tchaikovsky: Dumka
Liszt: Transcendental Etude “Wilde Jagd”
Grieg: Violin Sonata
Space is limited at this concert and priority booking is open to Maidenhead Music members until Christmas
when any remaining places will be allocated.
Booking is essential, via either
info@maidenheadmusicsociety.org
giving your name, phone number and the number of audience members in your party.
​Entrance is free and there will be a collection in aid of
the Dr Turnbull Fund, supporting young musicians.
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Directions to the concert can be found on the Lea Barn website: https://leabarn.org.uk/contact-us/
Gabriel Power
Maya Crawford-Phillips
Gabriel Power was born in London and started playing the piano at the age of five. He currently studies in London with Evgenia Startseva and was a recent prizewinner at the 2024 Globe Piano Competition in Holland. Has has just returned from the MusicWorks Chamber Music course where he worked with Catherine Manson, Robert Max and Daniel Cubero. Forthcoming highlights include a recital in January 2025 as part of Maidenhead Music’s Rising Stars series.
Maya Broman Crawford-Phillips is a Swedish/British violinist currently studying with Akiko Ono at the Yehudi Menuhin School. Her previous teachers were Nina Balabina and Boris Brovstyn.
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In January 2024, as a finalist in the Polstjärnepriset, Maya performed as soloist with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Previously she has also been concertmaster of the Polstjärnepriset orchestra, performing in both Sweden and Norway. Most recently, Maya competed in BBC’s Young Musician reaching the semi-final as one of only six instrumentalists.
In 2020 she received the Welin Scholarship for young string players and the Kerstin and Sigge Strand scholarship.​