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Armand Djikoloum & Iyad Sughayer | Leeds Lunchtime Chamber Music 2022/2023

Wed 30 Nov, 1:05pm

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Armand Djikoloum – oboe
Iyad Sughayer – piano

Benjamin Britten Temporal Variations Listen
Felix Mendelssohn Three Songs Without Words Listen
Francis Poulenc Oboe Sonata Listen
Robert Schumann Stücke im Volkston, Op 102, Nos 2 and 4 Listen
Robert Schumann Du bist wie eine Blume: Myrthen, Op 25, No 24 Listen
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Lensky’s Aria: Eugene Onegin Listen

This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.


Born in France, Armand Djikoloum studied at Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon and with Philippe Tondre at the Hochschule für Musik Saar. In 2021 he was a prize-winner at the YCAT International Auditions.

Recent highlights include his debut at Wigmore Hall and the Lammermuir Festival as a member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. This season he records and gives concerts with Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective including Britten’s Phantasy Oboe Quartet at Wigmore Hall.

In 2022 he takes part in the Ibagué Festival in Colombia and joins Chineke Chamber Music Ensemble at the Adelaide Festival in Australia and across the UK.

In 2018 Armand won 3rd Prize and the Audience Award at the International Oboe Competition in Japan performing the Strauss Concerto with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and giving recitals at Kioi Concert Hall. A year later he won two Special Prizes in the Muri Competition in Switzerland.

At the age of 22 Armand was appointed principal oboist at the Hannover Staatsoper. He regularly appears as guest principal with leading orchestras including the Staatskapelle Dresden, Stavanger Symphony, Frankfurt Opera and Oslo Opera Houses.


Chosen as ‘One to Watch’ by International Piano Magazine, Iyad Sughayer’s debut album – Khachaturian Piano Works for BIS Records was released in November 2019 to critical acclaim. The album was described by Gramophone as ‘exhilarating and delivered with perfect clarity’ and ‘an outstanding debut’ by BBC Music Magazine.

In 2021 Iyad was a prize-winner at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Auditions. At the opening of the 2021/22 season he recorded his second CD for BIS with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Andrew Litton including Khachaturian’s Piano Concerto and Masquerade.

As soloist Iyad has appeared with leading orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, BBC NOW, European Union Chamber Orchestra, the Cairo and Amman Symphony Orchestras.

He has given recitals at Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall & Stoller Hall in Manchester (broadcast by BBC Radio 3), Leeds Town Hall, the Laeiszhalle (Hamburg), Festival Musique D’Abord (France), Steinway Hall (New York), Castleton Festival (Virginia) and Kings Place in London, among many others.

Future engagements include recitals across the UK including Wigmore Hall, Perth Concert Hall, the Brighton, Lammermuir and Lake District Summer Music Festivals. Further afield he makes his debut in the Dubai Opera House, and takes part in the Ibague Festival in Colombia.

In 2020 he contributed to the BBC Arabic documentary ‘London Lockdown’, in which he took part as a character and recorded the soundtrack for the music.

Born in Amman, the Jordanian-Palestinian pianist, Iyad studied at Chetham’s School of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance where he won the College’s prestigious Gold Medal.

He completed his International Artist Diploma at the RNCM in 2019 with Murray McLachlan, Martino Tirimo and Graham Scott and in the same year became a City Music Foundation Artist. In 2021 he was made an Associate of the Royal Northern College of Music (ARNCM).

Iyad Sughayer is an inaugural YCAT Concordia Artist.

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Photo credit: Kaupo Kikkas

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