Thomas Kelly and a Summer Picnic Concert

The 2022 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition prizewinner Thomas Kelly returns to 1066 Country for his Summer Picnic Concert. Dominika Hicks writes.

Join us in the beautiful surroundings of Fairlight Hall on Sunday 9 July 2023 for a Summer Picnic Recital from our 2022 prize winner Thomas Kelly. Explore the beautiful gardens, enjoy a picnic with your family and friends or join us for a picnic lunch.

Grounds open 12pm for picnic
Concert starts at 2.30pm

PROGRAMME

Scarlatti – Sonata K.531 in E Major
Scarlatti – Sonata K.27 in B Minor
Scarlatti – Sonata K.13 in G Major
Scarlatti – Sonata K.96 in D Major “Chasse”

Schumann – Kinderszenen Op.15

Liszt – Venezia e Napoli

– Gondoliera
– Canzone
– Tarantella

-INTERVAL-

Busoni – Sonatina No.6 “Fantasia da Camera super Carmen”
Rachmaninoff – Sonata No.1 Op.28

Thomas Kelly

Thomas Kelly was born in 1998 and studied at The Purcell School for 2 years from 2015. He was taught by Andrew Ball at The Purcell School and since then has carried on this relationship through his current studies at the Royal College of Music.

Thomas has won 1st prizes including Pianale International Piano Competition 2017, Kharkiv Assemblies 2018, at Lucca Virtuoso e Bel Canto festival 2018, RCM Joan Chissell Schumann competition 2019, Kendall Taylor Beethoven competition 2019, BPSE Intercollegiate Beethoven competition 2019 and the 4th Theodor Leschetizky competition 2020. In 2021 Thomas was a finalist in the Leeds International Piano Competition. Most recently, he was awarded 2nd prize and special prize for the best semi-final performance at Hastings International Concerto Competition 2022.

He has performed in a variety of venues, including the Wigmore Hall, the Cadogan Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Steinway Hall London, Holy Trinity Sloane Square, St James’ Piccadilly, Oxford Town Hall, St Mary’s Perivale, St Paul’s Bedford, the embassies of Russia and Brazil in London, the Poole Lighthouse Arts Centre, the Stoller Hall, Leeds Town Hall, at the North Norfolk Music Festival, Paris Conservatoire, the StreingreaberHaus in Bayreuth and the Teatro Del Sale in Florence.

Since the pandemic restrictions in 2020, Thomas’ artistic activities include participating in all 4 seasons of the “Echo Chamber”, an online concert series curated by Noah Max, and releasing 3 singles under the Ulysses Arts label on digital platforms.

Fairlight Hall

Fairlight Hall is a private family home set in some 90 acres of pleasure gardens, pasture and woodland, with commanding views across farmland to the English Channel and the Rye Bay peninsula. The mock Tudor mansion was built in the 1850s by a Sussex family of landed gentry who, in a relatively short period of time, amassed an estate of some 4,000 acres. Today Fairlight Hall plays host to a number of different events managed by the family and supported by a team of housekeepers, gardeners and estate workers.

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