Leon McCawley
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Leon McCawley (born 1973) is a leading British pianist. He won the First Prize in the Ninth International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna in 1993. He has given solo performances with major orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Leon McCawley has produced CD recordings of music by Samuel Barber, by Ludwig van Beethoven, and by Robert Schumann, as well as a complete edition of Mozart's piano sonatas and a world premier recording of the complete piano works of Hans Gál. Two of his recordings have earned the "Editor's Choice" award of the journal The Gramophone. He studied with Heather Slade-Lipkin at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and with Eleanor Sokoloff at The Curtis Institute of Music in the USA, and latterly pianist Nina Milkina was a source of inspiration.
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