We are delighted to welcome back ERDEM MISIRLIOGLU who performed for us in 2015 with Trio Isimsiz. He has completed his undergraduate studies and master’s course in performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, both with first class honours, and has just finished his Artist’s Diploma. In 2006, Erdem was a prizewinner in the International Rachmaninov Competition for Young Pianists and was also awarded both the Keyboard Instrument Prize in 2006 and the Principal’s prize in 2008 at GSMD. Erdem won the piano section of BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008. In 2011, he was awarded first prize in the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe’s intercollegiate piano competition. A passionate chamber musician, Erdem is also a member of ‘Trio Isimsiz’, a piano trio formed with friends at the GSMD.Erdem regularly performs across the UK, appearing in venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Hall, Snape Maltings, Cardiff Millennium Centre and Wigmore Hall as well as numerous invitations for concerts in Europe and America.