Described as having “the potential to become a major voice in the classical music world” (Peter Donohoe CBE), Madeleine Brown is establishing herself as one of the most exciting young pianists of this generation. Having graduated with a BA in Music from Trinity College, Cambridge, she is now studying with Kathryn Stott at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she recently won the college’s prestigious Gold Medal Competition. Madeleine has previously learnt with esteemed pedagogues, including Helen Krizos, Charles Owen, Dina Parakhina and Lora Dimitrova, and is very grateful to receive coaching from Stephen Kovacevich, Muza Rubackyte, Marios Papadopoulos and Adolfo Barabino. Madeleine is grateful to the Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation and the Drake Calleja Trust for their generous support.

Madeleine has performed to international acclaim, receiving first prize at the Bromsgrove International Musician’s Competition in May 2025. She also receiving an Honourable Mention diploma at the International Piano Competition “Ciudad de Vigo” 2025 and was a keyboard semi-finalist in the Royal Overseas League Annual Music competition. Madeleine has already gained great experience working with orchestras and was awarded 1st prize in the Cambridge University Concerto Competition. Recent concerto highlights include Beethoven’s 3rd with the Orpington Symphony Orchestra, Rachmaninoff’s Paganini Rhapsody with Bertie Baigent, and Grieg with the Southampton Concert Orchestra to a sold-out Romsey Abbey. Madeleine was recently highly commended for her performance of Prokofiev’s 2nd in the RNCM Concerto Competition.

Madeleine has performed in esteemed venues including London’s Steinway Hall, King’s Place, St. James’ Sussex Gardens, Stoller Hall, Lansdowne Club, Mayfair, Southwark Cathedral, West Road Concert Hall, Kettle’s Yard, and the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, as well as the Bonn Schumannhaus and Köln Bechstein Centre. Praised for her extensive repertoire list and memorisation ability, Madeleine performed the complete Goldberg Variations by heart as part of the Trinity College Music Society’s ‘Clavier-Übung’ concert series in 2021. She enjoys creating themed concert programmes: her final recital at Cambridge, entitled ‘Dancing with the Devil’, centred around the Faustian bargain and its innately dark consequences, contrasting Liszt’s lively Mephisto Waltz No.1 with tragic, introspective works such as the Bach/Siloti B minor Prelude and the Liszt transcriptions of Schubert’s Doppelgänger and Gretchen am Spinnrade. She was the recipient of Trinity’s “Edith Leigh Piano Recital Prize” in 2023.

Madeleine was a participant in the Oxford Piano Festival in 2023, where she learnt from Stephen Kovacevich, Richard Goode and Marios Papadopoulos, and a few months later travelled to Brescia, Italy, to play for Piotr Paleczney and Giuseppe Devastato, where she also received 1st prize in the Talent Music Master Courses solo competition. Madeleine has twice been invited to participate in Heribert Koch’s week-long Internationaler Meisterkurs für Pianisten in Düren and has been the only English pianist to attend to date. Madeleine has received further masterclass tuition from several highly acclaimed pianists including Sir Stephen Hough, Peter Donohoe, Philipe Cassard, Freddy Kempf, Leon McCawley, Melvyn Tan, Martin Roscoe, and Noriko Ogawa. 

As well as solo work, Madeleine enjoys collaborative playing and regularly accompanies instrumentalists and vocalists. She works as a duo with conductor and violinist, Joseph Wolfe, with whom she has performed at Southwark Cathedral, Hammerwood Park, St. John the Divine, Kennington, and Cranbrook Parish Church. With an affinity for art song, Madeleine was an accompanist on the Cambridge Pembroke Lieder Scheme for three consecutive years, receiving regular coaching from Joseph Middleton. She went on to win first prize and the accompanist award in the Cambridge Clare College Song Competition in 2023. During her time at Cambridge, her role as an accompanist involved masterclass tuition from Sir Thomas Allen, James Gilchrist, Nicky Spence, Ailish Tynan, Marc Le Brocq and Lucy Crowe.