
Jesse Beaumont
has performed in festivals and prestigious venues around the country both as a soloist and as a chamber musician.
Jesse Beaumont jointly won the International Piano Competition 'Le Concours Musicale de France' in Paris 2007. He was also 1st Prize winner of the International Competition Fondazione Pescetto "Una borsa di studio a giovani musicisti" Edizione 2007 in Varazze, Italy.
After winning 1st Prize in the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Competition with his piano trio, they performed extensively around the UK playing in festivals such as the Proms at St. Jude's, the Cambridge Summer Music Festival and the Shipley Arts Festival in Sussex. Other venues where he has played as both soloist and chamber musician include the Aldeburgh Festival, where he was one of 3 pianists chosen to premiere childhood works by Benjamin Britten, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Lauderdale House, Cambridge Summer Music Festival and the Shipley Arts Festival.
He studied music at Oxford University where he performed Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto with the Oxford Philharmonia Orchestra in the Sheldonian Theatre. He went on to study as a postgraduate at Trinity College of Music, where he won various prizes including the Cavatina Chamber Music Competition 2005 with the Bomond Trio and the John Longmire Piano Prize for Liszt Transcriptions; and as a consequence played for the Liszt Society. He recently performed the complete Transcendental Etudes for the Liszt Society.