Highlights 2008

1st Grand Prize at 11th UNISA Vodacom International Piano Competition, Pretoria

Solo Recitals in Monticelli, Bologna, Rome, London, Edinburgh, Manchester

Tour with Moritzburg Festival Trio (with cellist Peter Bruns and violinist Kai Vogler): Recitals in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Knysna as well as Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Johannesburg and KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestras

Tchaikovsky Concerto no. 1 with the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra in Cape Town City Hall and Stellenbosch Endler Hall

Highlights 2009

Winning of Piano Prize, Lorna Viol Prize, Liszt Society Prize and overall Gold Medal at the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition, London

Recitals in Edinburgh, London (including Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre), Crema, Baselga di Pinè, Lisbon

Tour with cellist Anzél Gerber: Concerts in Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Durban and Pretoria

Vodacom Tour as 1st Prize winner of UNISA International Piano Competition:

Beethoven Piano Concerto no. 4 with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra

Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini with the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra

Recitals in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Stellenbosch, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown, George, Knysna, Hermanus, Franschhoek, Montagu, Parow

Obtaining Master’s Degree in Music from the University of Pretoria with a thesis on the piano music of Luigi Dallapiccola

Highlights 2010

January: Two-Piano Recital with Tessa Uys at the Royal Over-Seas League in London

February/March: Chopin Recital at City Music Society, Chopin Recitals at Fondazione Cariplo Milano, Beethoven Recital at Teatro Vittoria in Torino

April: Wigmore Hall Recital – Messiaen Preludes and Liszt Sonata in B minor, César Franck Quintet with Solstice String Quartet

May: Beethoven Recital at Teatro del Giglio in Lucca; Recital at Sala Mariele Ventre, Imola

July: Recitals at Chester and King’s Lynn Festivals in the UK

August: Brahms Concerto no. 2 with Cape Philharmonic Orchestra and Conrad van Alphen

September: Winning the Soroptimist Prize at the Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow; A Tribute to Sergei Diaghilev (Centenary of Ballets Russes) at Hampstead/Highgate Festival

October: South African Contemporary Music Recital in Torino and Savona (EstOvest Festival)

November: Two-Piano Recital with Matei Varga at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest

December: Recording of Liszt-Album for TwoPianists Records in Stellenbosch, South Africa

Highlights 2011

April: Liszt CD Album Launch Tour – recitals in Stellenbosch, Cape Town, at the KKNK in Oudtshoorn, at the Enoch Sontonga Hall at UNISA in Pretoria, in Sandton and Bloemfontein

May: Receives the Kanna Award for Liszt Recitals at the KKNK, South Africa

June: Mozart Concerto K. 414 with the Brodowski Quartet in Woodbridge, Suffolk; Recital with the Rose Wind Trio at the Wigmore Hall in London (music of Mozart and Poulenc)

June/July: Recitals at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival as winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Music in 2011 – recitals and Liszt Concerto no. 1 with the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra

August: Liszt Concerto no. 1 with conductor Gérard Korsten and Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra; South African recital tour with flautist Dawid Venter – concerts in Pretoria, Hermanus, Stellenbosch, Knysna, Humansdorp, Cape Town

October: Prokofiev Piano Concerto no. 1 with Orion Orchestra at the Cadogan Hall, London

November: Ravel Concerto for the Left Hand with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and conductor Diego Masson at the Barbican Hall in London

Highlights 2012

January: Liszt Piano Concertos no. 1 and no. 2 with the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Yasuo Shinozaki at the Oude Libertas Theatre in Stellenbosch and the Cape Town City Hall; Solo recital with music of Bach, Debussy and Schumann at the ArtsCape Opera House in Cape Town

February: Classic FM Recital in Johannesburg and Beethoven Marathon in Ealing, London; Awarded the prestigious KykNet Fiesta in Cape Town

March: Brahms Recital at the Barbican Hall in London

May: Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto no. 1 with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and conductor James Judd at the Barbican Hall in London

July: First Prize with cellist Anzél Gerber in the Ibla Grand Prize Competition in Sicily, Italy

August: Stefans Grové Conference at the Odeion School of Music in Bloemfontein, University of the Free State (lectures, public interview with composer, recitals and world premieres); Recital at St. Martin in the Fields, London

September: Recital at the Cultural Centre in Eppan near Bolzano, Italy

October: Recital in Rome for South African Heritage Day; commences studies with Prof. Eliso Virsaladze at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Italy, Stefans Grové Recital at City University of London, Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra

November: Recitals at St. James’s Piccadilly and St. Barnabas in Ealing, London

December: Recitals at St. James’s Piccadilly, Perivale and St. Martin in the Fields in London

Highlights 2013

February: Recital at Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London

March: Villa Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras no. 3 for Piano and Orchestra with the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor En Shao in Durban, South Africa

June: Recital with Anzél Gerber at the ZK Matthews Great Hall in Pretoria and Grahamstown Festival

July: Recital at Grahamstown Festival and Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue with the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra

August: Awarded the Contemporary Music Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition in the USA; Five concerts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the Royal Over-Seas League

September: Liszt Piano Concerto no. 1 with Camerata Regala and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and conductor Vlad Vizireanu at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest

Highlights 2014

April: Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto no. 5 with the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra in Cape Town City Hall

May: Recital in Marlborough; Debut at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall with cellist Anzél Gerber in New York; Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto no. 5 with City Symphony Orchestra at LSO St. Lukes, London

August: Recitals with Anzél Gerber at the Klein Karoo Klassique in Oudtshoorn and the Endler Hall in Stellenbosch

November: Recitals at Cadogan Hall, London and Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge

Highlights 2015

January: Recital at City Music Society (Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit; Fauré Nocturnes, Bartók Suite Op. 14, Debussy Pour le Piano); Masterclasses at Abingdon School in Oxford

March: Recital at Steinway Hall, London

April: Recital with baritone Njabulo Madlala in Bucharest under the auspices of South African Ambassador Thenjiwe Mtintso

May: Rachmaninoff Concerto no. 2 with conductor Gérard Korsten and Free State Symphony Orchestra in Bloemfontein; Solo recital in Pretoria with music of Bach, Fauré, Kodály and Schumann

June: South African concert tour with cellist Anzél Gerber – Recitals in Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Knysna, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria; World Premiere of Stefans Grové’s Concerto for Cello, Piano and Orchestra ‘Bushman Prayers’ (2013) with conductors Yasuo Shinozaki and Carlos Izcaray and the Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestras

July: Final Doctoral Recital at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama/City University of London – programme:

Stefans Grové (1922-2014) – Songs and Dances from Africa (1988-1990)

Béla Bartók (1881-1945) – Suite, Op. 14 (1916)

S Grové – My Seasons (2012)

Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) – Dances of Marosszék (1927)

S Grové – Nonyana, the Ceremonial Dancer (1994) and Dance Song for the Nyau Dance (2003)

July: Chopin/Schumann Recital at the Barbara Hesse-Bukowska Chopin Festival at Busko Zrdój in Poland

August: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (arr. 4 hands by Scharwenka) with Tessa Uys at the St. Lawrence Jewry Summer Music Festival, City of London

September: Recital with Music of Beethoven, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Liszt at St. James’s Piccadilly, London

December: Recital with Beethoven Moonlight Sonata and Schumann Carnaval (among other works) at St. Martin in the Fields, London