Strand International Piano Series 2023-4

St Mary le Strand (The "Jewel" of the Strand) plays host to the second Strand International Piano Series.  Further to its launch to great acclaim in the 2022-23 season, the new series will feature all 32 of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas. London's most intimate concert venue boasts stunning architecture, beautiful acoustics and a brand new Steinway concert grand piano.

Pianist
Caroline Tyler

Programme 
Tyler: Sky Prelude & Lullaby 
Beethoven: Sonata no 19 in G minor
Liszt: Concert Etude: Un Sospiro
Smetana: Concert Etude: On The Seashore
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata no 2 in D minor
Beethoven: 6 Ecossaises

Award-winning concert pianist Caroline Tyler has performed at many prestigious venues including the Barbican Hall in London, the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham and the Martinu Concert Hall in Prague. Since the pandemic hit, Caroline has focused on new projects: writing more piano music including a commission for the Piano Exam Pieces published by ABRSM for 2023-24, and featuring as the first 'door' in an online Advent Calendar performing her virtuosic arrangement of Silent Night, shared in BBC Music Magazine, with her arrangement of Away in a Manger also featured.  Caroline started Composify, a new musical gift service which takes the letters of a name or message and transforms them into notes, creating unique personalised compositions as gifts, which are also miniature pieces of music in their own right. Composify piano pieces can be streamed on Spotify, Soundcloud and all major music platforms, and Composify has its own shop on Etsy. 

Caroline is a solo artist with Piha International, and alumna of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Concordia Foundation of London.  Caroline has given concerts and masterclasses in Istanbul, performed at various UK music societies and for various universities' International Concert Series. For Concordia she performed in London at Painters' Hall for the Lord Mayor of London and guests, and gave solo performances at St Martin-In-The-Fields and St James' Piccadilly. Caroline has also regularly given concerts in partnership with Ensemble Reza, as accompanist, recitalist and concerto soloist in Rachmaninoff Concerto no 2,  Chopin Concerto no 1 and Mozart Concerto no 22. She has collaborated with soprano Alexandra Saunders, who performs the vocal music for the Royal Shakespeare Company.