Rising Welsh pianist Tomos Boyles has enjoyed competition success at the National Eisteddfod and EPTA competitions, and has performed at the prestigious St David’s Hall in Cardiff and Wales Millenium Centre. Graduating from Oxford University and continuing with a Master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music, Tomos is now completing his Professional Diploma. His programme opens with Sofia Gubaidulina’s magnificent B minor Chaconne, bringing together her love of Bach, jazz and post-Shostakovich pyrotechnics. Two well-loved études by Skryabin provide a link to Brahms’s Olympian five-movement sonata, composed when he was just 20: a weighty work of symphonic proportions, as well as bravura.