Victoria de Melo

Biography

Victoria de Melo won First Prize at the 2026 Abingdon Concerto Competition and Second Prize at the 2025 London International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists. Victoria has performed solo recitals at the Wigmore Hall, the Sheldonian Theatre through the Young Artists' Platform, the Holywell Music Room for the Oxford Chamber Music Society's anniversary concert, the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building in the Oxford Piano Festival and Trinity College during the Cambridge International Piano Festival. She participated in the Allegro Vivo Festival and the Clavicologne International Piano Festival in Austria. Victoria has received masterclasses from renowned pedagogues including Stephen Kovacevich, Dmitri Alexeev, Pavel Gililov, Piotr Paleczny, Elisabeth Leonskaja and Richard Goode. She currently studies with Tatiana Sarkissova.