James Carrabino, piano

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Biography:

James Carrabino is a British pianist whose performances and education have taken him across the United Kingdom, the United States of America and mainland Europe. Growing up in London, he has presented solo performances in numerous venues including the Royal Festival Hall, Cadogan Hall and St Martin-in-the-Fields.

After attending the Royal College of Music (RCM) from 2015 – 2016, James pursued his Bachelor of Arts degree at Yale University, where he studied piano with Professor Wei-Yi Yang. In 2017, James became the first student in nearly a decade to win the Yale Symphony Orchestra’s William Waite Concerto Competition in his first year at the university, and in 2019 he was awarded the Joseph Lentilhon Selden Award for an outstanding third-year student “whose verve, idealism and constructive interests in music and the humanities exemplify those qualities for which Selden is remembered.” Upon graduating cum laude from Yale in 2020, James returned to the Royal College of Music and completed his Master of Music degree with Distinction. He is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the RCM and his principal study professors include Norma Fisher, Ian Jones and Dmitri Alexeev.

James has performed in public RCM masterclasses for pre-eminent artists including Imogen Cooper and Alexander Kobrin. In October 2022, James was a semi-finalist and recipient of the Rosalía de Castro prize at the International Piano Competition “Cidade de Vigo” in Vigo, Spain and in the same month he was named as a winner of the 2022 London International Concerto Competition.

James is also enthusiastic about poetry and he is very grateful to Natalie Nedvetsky for the opportunity to take part in this unique event, exploring the relationship between poetry and music.