Aïda Lahlou

Pianist

Aïda Lahlou

Pianist

ABOUT

© Olivia da Costa

Born in Casablanca, Aïda started the piano aged five, winning her first international competition three years later. At fifteen, she was sponsored by the UK government through the Music and Dance Scheme to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School, before reading Music at the University of Cambridge and joining the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating with Distinction.

Aïda has been concertising internationally since her teens with a concert portfolio spanning fourteen countries. Highlights include a three-date tour with the Orchestre Symphonique Royal as a soloist in R. Schumann’s Piano Concerto; performing alongside Gilles Apap, Roby Lakatos, Valeriy Sokolov, and Volker Biesenbender in BOZAR in Brussels; performing Rachmaninoff’s Trio Élégiaque No. 1 at Wigmore Hall to great acclaim by audience and critics; and playing in the Calais jungle for an audience of refugees and volunteers.

Solitär, Salzburg.
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Aïda has received over twenty awards from national and international competitions, most recently at the 2024 Royal Overseas League competition and the 2024 Watford International Competition. She participated in masterclasses with musicians of international renown, such as Pavel Gililov, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Lev Natochenny, Robert Levin and John Rink.

Aside from her pianistic activities, Aïda volunteers with environmental advocacy groups and has stage-directed four operas. Her ‘Stand Up Comedy Meets Classical Piano’ show was awarded the 2023 Barbican Imagine Fund. Aïda has also taught masterclasses on the topics of performance, communication, and artistic practice.