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Liam Keneally spent his childhood in Australia where his musical career flourished. He completed Honours at the Queensland Conservatorium and currently studies with Radu Blidar at the Royal College of Music. Career highlights include tours with the Australian Chamber Orchestra Collective as soloist and Australian International Opera Company as Concertmaster. In Europe he has performed at the Shostakovich Centre in Paris, Salon Razumovsky in Vienna, and London venues including St Mary Abbots Cathedral, St Stephen’s Cathedral, and St John’s Smith Square. For his outstanding performance abilities Liam was awarded the 2019 Ernest V. Llewelyn String Scholarship. Recent engagements have included an Australian Concert Tour with pianist Victoire Pruvost and RCM New Perspectives with Duncan Ward.
A native of Paris, Victoire-Théodora Pruvost has since childhood won many international awards and prizes: San Sebastian Piano Competition, Steinway Piano Competition, and Scriabin Piano Competition in Paris etc. She has performed in Europe’s most beautiful venues including Salle Gaveau and Salle Cortot in Paris, the Opera de Lyon, Teatro Communale di Ferrara, the Rimsky-Korsakov’s Conservatory in St Petersburg, and Palais de l’Athe´ne´e in Geneva.
In 2016 Victoire was awarded the prestigious Dorothy McKenzie Recognition Award, performing at the Consulate General of France in New York to represent the French-American Piano Society. The followings year she gave concerts in New York, Cincinnati and North Carolina. In 2018 she was invited to the prestigious festival PianoFest in the Hamptons. She holds a Masters from the Conservatoire National Supe´rieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon and currently studies at the Royal College of Music with Gordon Fergus-Thompson and Ronan O'Hora, Head of Keyboard Studies at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.