Simon Mulligan
Studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Alexander Kelly and at the Paris National Conservatoire in Jacques Rouvier’s class. He then perfected his studies attending the masterclasses of Berezovsky, Bashkirov, Rosen, Perahia, Weissenberg and Brendel.
He made his debut at the Barbican in London at the age of nineteen, playing Rachmaninov’s second Concerto with the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra.
He has often played in trios with Yehudi Menuhin.
At the age of twenty, he went on a concert tour through Europe, playing Tchaikovski’s first Concerto with Menuhin and the Royal Philarmonic.
Mulligan founded the London International Piano Quintet, and he has often also played with John Wallace and with Paul Meyer.
In the last few years, he has regularly been playing in duos with the violinist Yoshua Bell and with the cellist Lynn Harrell, as well as with Hana Kotková.
He is the composer and the author of music for television and for the cinema, and he’s always been engaged with jazz.
As a jazz-player, he has performed in different European countries and not long after his debut at the Queen Elisabeth Hall in London, he won the Daily Telegraph National Youth Jazz Competition.