British pianist Samantha Ward has performed extensively around the UK and in
Europe and has appeared on British television and radio several times. She
has a number of successes in competitions beginning in 2004, when she won
the Making Music Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists
resulting in concerto and recital appearances for two years in Britain as
well as recital appearances at the Wigmore Hall and St Martin in the Fields.
She also won the Guildhall School's John Ireland Prize in 2004, a major
Educational Award from the Musicians' Benevolent Fund in 2005 and the
Guildhall School's Beethoven Prize in 2006.
In 2006 Samantha won the Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition as well as the Sir Philip Ledger Prize for the best performance of a Mozart or Beethoven Concerto which resulted in a concerto performance in London and an appearance on BBC Radio 2's 'Friday Night is Music Night'. Also in 2006, Samantha won the Beethoven Society of Europe's Intercollegiate Piano Competition. Most recently, in 2007, she won the Worshipful Company of Musicians Young Artists Fund Award as well as First Prize and a Gold Medal in the Marlow International Computers in Personnel Concerto Competition.
In 2008, she was a finalist in the piano section of the Royal Overseas League Music Competition and the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Prince's Prize as well as being a major prize winner in the Bromsgrove International Young Artists Platform. Future engagements include a concert tour of Scotland in October 2008 and concert appearances and recitals around the UK. Samantha has recently been awarded a scholarship from the Dartington International Summer School and has been awarded a Fellowship from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for the year 2007/8 where she studied with Joan Havill after having completed her studies at Chetham's School of Music.