Free Lunchtime Concert - Anna Zillerbord & Jaiali

After a summer break, we’re delighted to welcome you back to the St Marylebone Free Lunchtime Concerts! In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

Anna Zillerbord (Violin) & Jiali Wang (Piano)

Anna Zillerbord was born in Saint-Petersburg Russia in 2006 and began studying the violin at age 5. Anna attended the Special Music School of the State Petersburg State Conservatory under Professor Larisa Baranova and worked with prof. Grigory Kalinovsky (Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, USA). In 2023 -2024 Anna commenced studying with Professor Robin Wilson at the Yehudi Menuhin School and in 2024 Anna continues her studies with him at the Royal Academy of Music London.

Anna participated in masterclasses with Maxim Vengerov, Daniel Hope, Zakhar Bron, Dmitri Sinkovsky, Alena Baeva, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Michaela Martin, and Ilya Kaler. Anna has given recitals with pianists such as Miroslav Kultyshev, Oleg Weinstein, Inga Dzektser and collaborated with conductors such as Altschuler, Chernushenko, Steinlukht, Rybalko, Golikov and Karklin.

In 2015 Anna won 2nd prize at the Prokofiev International Violin Competition in Moscow, and in 2020 Anna became a recipient of the prestigious Maestro Temirkanov Cultural Initiatives Fund Award. In 2021 Anna recorded the soundtrack for a series called ‘a Bow’. This work was published on the Smart movie platform. In 2024 Anna made her UK debut with the Farnham Sinfonia orchestra under the baton of Mathew Taylor. Anna plays a violin by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume made in 1863, on kind loan from a generous benefactor.

Chinese concert pianist Jiali Wang is a passionate and accomplished musician with a wide range of experiences performing as a soloist and working with other instrumentalists and composers covering various musical genres. Her infectious enthusiasm of playing with a virtuoso technique and vibrancy has brought her to prestigious venues all over the world such as Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Helsinki Temppeliaukio Rock Church, Netherlands Ruïnekerk Church, Xinghai Symphony Orchestral Hall, New York University Concert Hall, Xiamen Concert Hall, London Regent Hall, among others. In 2023, she received the Edna Bralesford Piano Prize from Royal Academy of Music for graduating with the highest mark.She is currently studying with the emeritus head of keyboard-Prof.Christopher Elton and regularly playing for well-established names such as Yevgeny Sudbin and Steven Osborne. In 2023, she has been nominated as one of the applicants of theVendome Prize Piano Competition in New York 2024.

Jiali began her career by winning the gold award of the Beijing Music Festival Competition, where she gave the prize winner recital in honour of Chinese Piano Music in Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. In 2011, she won the 11th Beijing Xiwang Cup National Piano Competition and was invited to give performances of the same concert series with Lang Lang in Peking University.

Besides the major achievement she has done such as won the Gershwin International Music Competition (US) in 2017, Jiali was also a prize winner of many important national and international competitions, which includes the first prize of Alion Baltic International Piano Competition (Estonia); the first prize of Harbin International Piano Music Festival Competition; Hignly Commended in Chopin International Junior Piano Competition (Russia); In 2022, she won the Harriet Cohen Bach Competitioion and its special Harold Samuel Prize. She was also the winner of First Place of 2022 RAM Piano Duo Competition.

She has also appeared in famous music festivals, as well as having many masterclasses worldwide with maestros such as Professor Arie Vardi, Alexander Toradze, Ian Hobson, Hung-Kuan Chen, Jerome Lowenthal and Oxana. Yablonskay

Time: 1 PM

Venue: St Marylebone Parish Church