Biography

Born in Romiley, Stockport, Julian Evans received his musical training at the Royal Northern College of Music studying with John Wilson and the late Ryszard Bakst. He later worked with the pianist Aline Gualino.

In 1984, he became the youngest ever winner of the Dudley International Piano Competition. He is also the winner of the Lionel Robbins Memorial Scholarship. He has appeared as soloist with the Halle orchestra and following his London debut at the Wigmore Hall, Malcolm Hayes from The Times reported: "Let us welcome a remarkable and intensely musical talent".

Since 1993 he has resided in Cologne, Germany, where he is rapidly becoming a prolific recording artist. His extensive recordings for the German label LA VERGNE CLASSICS include sonatas of Beethoven and Chopin, works by Liszt, Busoni, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Brahms, Schubert and concertos of Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Ravel. In addition, CD recordings have been made with the German record company ORGANUM CLASSICS released in 2003. Julian has appeared many times as soloist in the Berlin Philharmonie, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Queen Elizabeth Hall (Liszt's Totentanz and Ron Corp's Piano Concerto), the Usher Hall in Edingburgh, the Royal Concert Hall (as soloist with the RNSO), the Philharmonie in Riga (concertos of Tchaikovsky and Ravel), the Bosendorfer-Saal in Vienna, the Ludwigsburg Festival and Franz Hummel's Festival where he performed Beethovens' Emperor Concerto broadcast by Bavarian Radio, the Bridgewater Hall, the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, and the Kongresshalle in Luzern, where he was described by the Sudost Zeitung as "a veritable discovery for the piano world".

He has made both solo and concerto debuts at the Alte Oper Frankfurt. His first appearance there was part of the Liszt/Beethoven series, where his rendering of Liszt's transcription of the Beethoven Eroica symphony was hailed in the Frankfurter Rundschau as "... phenomenal pianistic stamina, terse and succinct tempi, meticulous articulation and supreme execution which even Franz Liszt himself would have very probably admired".

In addition to appearing as soloist with many German Orchestras he has also played with the Moscow and Latvian State Symphony Orchestras. As a chamber musician, the eminent players he has worked with include violinist Julia Becker, the leader of the orchestra at the Tonhall Orchester in Zürich, and cellist Wen-sinn Yank the principal cello in the Bayerischen Runkfunk in Munich, as well as recitals with international opera singer, baritone Bruno Caproni.