Nicola Meecham
piano
Nicola Meecham
piano
July 5th 2026
Nicola makes a return to the Frome Festival in a programme entitled ‘Love and Sorrow’. She opens the programme with Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A major D.959 then joins internationally renowned contralto Claudia Huckle in a performance of Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder.
June 25th 2026
Join Nicola and cellist Penny Driver in a programme for solo piano, and cello and piano duo at the Schubert Society of London. The featured works are Schubert’s late Piano Sonata in A major D.959 and his charming ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata for cello and piano.
“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
June 18th 2026
Nicola performs Mozart’s lyrical Piano Concerto No 23 in A major K.488 with the Argyle String Orchestra in St Luke’s Church, Bath. Also on the programme are Florence Price’s Andante Moderato and Schubert’s Symphony No 5
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October 1st 2025
Nicola performs a lunchtime recital in the Mostly Piano Concerts Series in Coventry. The programme includes Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata and Chopin’s Fourth Ballade
July 11th 2025
Nicola performs a lunchtime recital as part of the Frome Festival. On the programme are Beethoven’s dramatic Appassionata Sonata, three pieces from Janacek’s introspective cycle On an Overgrown Path and Chopin’s Fourth Ballade.
July 5th 2026
Nicola makes a return to the Frome Festival in a programme entitled ‘Love and Sorrow’. She opens the programme with Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A major D.959 then joins internationally renowned contralto Claudia Huckle in a performance of Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder.
June 18th 2026
Nicola performs Mozart’s lyrical Piano Concerto No 23 in A major K.488 with the Argyle String Orchestra in St Luke’s Church, Bath. Also on the programme are Florence Price’s Andante Moderato and Schubert’s Symphony No 5.
June 25th 2026
Join Nicola and cellist Penny Driver in a programme for solo piano, and cello and piano duo at the Schubert Society of London. The featured works are Schubert’s late Piano Sonata in A major D.959 and his charming ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata for cello and piano.
July 11th 2025
Nicola performs a lunchtime recital in the Mostly Piano Concerts Series in Coventry. The programme includes Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata and Chopin's Fourth Ballade.
June 28th 2025
Nicola performs George Gershwin’s jazz-inflected Piano Concerto with the Trowbridge Symphony Orchestra at the Wiltshire Music Centre. Entitled Virtuoso Gershwin, Bernstein, Debussy: 20th Century Gems, the programme also features Saint-Saëns’ Dance Macabre.
October 1st 2025
Nicola performs a lunchtime recital as part of the Frome Festival. On the programme are Beethoven’s dramatic Appassionata Sonata, three pieces from Janacek’s introspective cycle On an Overgrown Path and Chopin’s Fourth Ballade.
June 28th 2025
Nicola performs George Gershwin’s jazz-inflected Piano Concerto with the Trowbridge Symphony Orchestra at the Wiltshire Music Centre. Entitled Virtuoso Gershwin, Bernstein, Debussy: 20th Century Gems, the programme also features Saint-Saëns’ Dance Macabre.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
July 2019
Nicola visits the Sufei Arts Academy in Shenzhen, China, to hold piano masterclasses and perform four-hand piano music with Lauretta Bloomer.
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.
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