Jasmin Allpress presents a modern and insightful take on the classical music scene. A highly creative musician, fusing the traditional realms of the piano recital with literature, movement, song and poetry, Jasmin is forever looking to explore the boundaries of classical music today.

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As both solo and chamber musician, Jasmin has appeared at renowned festivals such as the Leeds International Chamber Festival, Festival dei Giovani musicisti europei di Mondovì, New Music North West and Lake Summer Music, and performed in venues including Wigmore Hall, Viennese Hall, Salzburg, the Bridgewater Hall, Nottingham Theatre Royal, Chester Storyhouse, Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi, Italy, Buxton Pavilion and St James’s Piccadilly. She has been awarded both the Patricia Cunliffe award for Keyboard Studies and first prize in the Fergal O’Mahony competition at the Royal Northern College of Music and as a founding member of the Larisa Piano Trio, holds the prestigious St James's Prize, the Christopher Rowland Chamber Music Ensemble of the Year Award and the Weil Prize amongst others. In 2018 she appeared as a soloist with the Manchester University Symphony Orchestra performing John Ireland’s Piano Concerto.

As a pedagogue, Jasmin works regularly with young people and has over six years of teaching experience and workshop leading for all ages. She believes that everyone deserves to have access to music and she constantly aims to increase the reach of her work by promoting a forward thinking and accessible view of classical music.

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Collaboration across the arts has always played a large part in Jasmin’s musical life. With the Larisa Trio, she is currently working on a piece for music and contemporary dance with the dance group Excessive Human Collective and composer Devon Bonelli, exploring the idea of a post-work world and the role that technology plays in the destruction/salvation of the Earth. The trio also works regularly with New Music Norfolk on commissions for the trio, including a piano trio written by Michael Finnissy which was dedicated to the ensemble. Jasmin has also worked with composers in the UK and internationally including Sir Mark Anthony Turnage on his piece ‘Sleep On’ for cello and piano with performances at the Wigmore hall, and Czech composer Jiri Kaderabek on his piece Hindyish, which she performed in the Carole Nash Recital Room at the RNCM in 2017.

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Projects in the pipeline include an evening of classical music and integrated folk song, exploring the connection of popular and folk music in the history of classical piano and an outdoor concert installing the piano within the natural soundscape of a woodland and the ensuing interaction between music and nature.

Jasmin was brought up in Bath and although not from a musical background has many early memories of listening to ABBA on long car journeys and dabbling on the upright piano she had at home. She started piano lessons at the age of 5 and violin lessons two years later. Although she wouldn’t consider herself a violinist in public she remembers fondly playing in the National Children’s Orchestra and will still play the odd folk tune every now and then. At the age of 16 she continued her studies at Chetham’s School of Music and in 2016 took up a place on the ‘joint course’ at the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Manchester. After 7 years in Manchester she moved to London and is now working as a freelance musician having completed a Masters at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she held a Guildhall School Scholarship and a Help Musicians Postgraduate Award.

When she’s not playing or listening to music Jasmin loves all things outdoors. Forever drawn to nature she is fascinated by our connection to the Earth and as such is an avid yoga practitioner. If she could, she would spend all her time in the countryside, preferably with a dog and a cup of tea.

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