Lauren Zhang, 16, who is studying for her GCSEs at King Edward VI High School for Girls, showed she is one of the best young musicians in the country with her performance of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto no 2 in G Minor, op 16.
After months of qualifying rounds, Lauren was the youngest of the three young musicians who made it to the final of the prestigious competition, held earlier this month at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall and broadcast on BBC Four and BBC Radio 3.
Lauren began taking piano lessons at the age of four and also plays the violin. She joined the Birmingham Junior Conservatoire in 2009 and has won a string of prizes, including first prize at the Ettlingen International Piano Competition in Germany in 2016.
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