Born in 1974, Juliet Allen is one of the most experienced young concert pianists in Britain today. Playing since the age of five, she made her recital debut at nine and performed her first concerto, Beethoven No.1, aged eleven. She has now played almost thirty concertos and has a busy concert career in the Britain and abroad.
Juliet was awarded her Performance Diploma as an Associate of the Royal College of Music aged fifteen and soon afterwards performed at the Chester Festival at the invitation of Richard Hickox. The following year she played Mozart’s D Minor Concerto with the London Mozart Players, broadcast by the BBC, and the complete cycle of Beethoven Concertos. In 1995, Juliet graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, with a First Class Degree in Music. She won the Nora Naismith Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, London where she was awarded the Frank Simms Prize, the Grover Bennett Scholarship and an Advanced Performer’s Diploma. She won the UK section of the European Music for Youth Prize and was the national representative in the Finals in Dublin.
Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music, Juliet’s performance career as encompassed recitals, chamber music, accompanying as well as concertos with an extraordinarily wide and growing repertoire. She has appeared on BBC Radio 2 and Radio 3, and outside the UK has performed to critical acclaim in Hungary, Ireland and the USA.