Hear piano talent at church concert
AT St Chad’s Parish Church Rochdale on Saturday, October 7, the Midday Recital Series will present pianist Hayley Parkes.
As a student at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) and alumni of Chetham’s School of Music, Hayley is an active performer, playing across the country as a soloist, chamber musician, accompanist and collaborator.
Appearances include solo performances at the Bridgewater Hall, The Sage, Gateshead and on BBC Radio 3, as well as performances at BBC Proms and at the Royal Festival Hall.
As a competition participant, she performed in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Category Final, won first prize at the Beethoven Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition and was a prize winner at the Bromsgrove International Musicians Competition 2017. She is also the recipient of various awards, including The Vernon Farley Piano Prize, The Peter Donohoe Prize, The Marjorie Pennington Prize and The James Oncken Song Prize for Accompanist.
As an orchestral pianist, Hayley has appeared at venues across the country under Edward Gardner, Sir Mark Elder, Paul Mann, Gábor TákacsNagy and En Shao.
Hayley made her concerto debut with the Northern Chamber Orchestra in 2013 and has since performed as a concerto soloist with the St Cecelia Orchestra, Vacation Chamber Orchestra and the Athenean Ensemble.
She has also performed for many prestigious musicians, including Kathryn Stott, Stephen Hough, Richard Goode, Philippe Cassard, Robert Levin and Martin Roscoe.
Since 2015, Hayley has held posts at both Northern Ballet and The Royal Ballet School as an associate pianist.
She has also appeared as a guest artist and speaker at Thinking Digital, The Sage, TEDx Liverpool, Manchester and Whitehall Women at the Foreign Office.
In 2017 she was named on the Futures List for Northern Power Women UK.
As an advocate for arts education, she has delivered various outreach projects around the UK focusing on live music access and connections between different art forms - all as a recipient of funding from The Arts Council and The Leverhulme Trust.
Hayley obtained her degree with first class honours at the RNCM.
In 2017 she was the student union president, during which time she founded the RNCM Film Orchestra.