World-renowned pedagogue and concert pianist, Glenn Riddle, shares his insights, artistry and great playing with audiences in Melbourne - mark your calendar for this wonderful event!
Caitlin Au and Chloe Au, Piano duet – Mendelssohn: Allegro Brillante Op 92
Charlie Wu - Tchaikovsky: Nocturne Op 10 No 1
Jasmine Lai: Piano TBA
Glenn Riddle, Piano, Larissa Aguiar, Violin, Kate Cherry, Viola and Stephen Hughes, Violoncello:
Mozart: Piano Quartet in Eb major (excerpts)
Brahms: Piano Quartet in C minor (excerpts)
Choose Concert 4 for Glenn Riddle
Glenn Riddle
Australian pianist Glenn Riddle is Senior Lecturer in Keyboard at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Research Associate at the University of Waikato New Zealand, Visiting Professor at the Nanjing University of the Arts, China, AMEB Federal Examiner, and Senior Music Critic for Classic Melbourne. He has recorded for Tall Poppies, Move Records, Hal Leonard Publishing and ABC Classics, and continues to perform both locally and internationally as concerto soloist, chamber musician and in solo recitals. One of Australia’s most distinguished piano pedagogues, he has edited 12 volumes of piano music for the AMEB, and is regularly invited to present recitals, masterclasses and pedagogy workshops throughout China, the South-East Asia region, in Australia and New Zealand. He has been on international competition juries in the USA, Greece, Israel, Thailand, China, New Zealand and Indonesia. His own students have won numerous prizes in international competitions performing with such prestigious ensembles as the Russian National Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Salzburg Chamber Soloists, Les Solistes de Neuchâtel (Geneva), the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Maroc, the Helsinki Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Ningbo Symphony Orchestra, the Jakarta Concert Orchestra, the Academia di Perugia Orchestra in Italy, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Polish International String Quartet.
Jasmine Lai
Eighteen-year-old Jasmine Lai is a multi-awarded young composer-pianist. She studies piano with Glenn Riddle and is currently a first-year student in Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. She has recently been awarded scholarships from the Theme and Variations Foundation and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Entrance Grant.
In 2021, Jasmine won First Prize in the Sydney Eisteddfod Junior Pianoforte Scholarship, one of Australia’s most prestigious awards for young musicians. In 2024 and 2025, she was the winner of Young Bach Scholar Award from Baroque Competition in the Melbourne Recital Centre. Other awards include the 2021 Margaret Green Junior Pianoforte Scholarship, the 2022 Phyllis MacDonald Piano Scholarship, as well as the Musical Society of Victoria’s Des Stevenson, Eda Schurmann, and Nehama Patkin Memorial Awards. Internationally she has won the Grand Prix Award in the 2023 New York Glory International Piano Competition, as well as First prizes in the 2023 International Piano Competition Online, the 2022 WPTA Singapore International Piano Competition, the 2022 WPTA Spain International Piano Competition, the 2023 Ad Libitum Piano Competition, the 2022 Orbetello International Piano Competition, the 2023 Bach Pianist Competition, and the 2023 Lancaster International Piano Competition. She has performed piano concertos by Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann with the Camerata Orchestra and the Preston Symphony Orchestra and in 2023 was the winner of the Preston Symphony Youth Concerto Competition. Recently she won the Prodigy prize from ArsClassica International Junior Competition and as a result will give a solo recital in Rome in December 2025.
Besides piano solo performance, Jasmine is active as a composer and has had works performed by Australian Youth Orchestra, Queensland Youth Orchestra, Adelaide Youth Orchestra and Melbourne Youth Orchestra. She was the youngest Australian composer who received the 2024 ABC Composer Commissioning Fund and has her new composition “Liminality” performed by Ensemble Liaison. The recording will be digitally released and aired by the ABC.
Chloe Au
Fourteen-year-old Chloe Au started learning piano with Yuko Ikeda when she was five, and now studies piano with Glenn Riddle. She is an Academic Scholar at Lauriston Girls’ School. In 2024, Chloe was awarded LMusA (Distinction), her examiners commenting that her playing was ‘nothing short of a world-class display of transcendental pianism and musicianship’, exhibiting ‘outstanding artistic authority’. She then was invited to perform for the 2025 AMEB Graduation Ceremony.
In 2025, Chloe was awarded First Prize in the Little Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition. In Hanoi, Vietnam, she also won six First Prizes at the Vietnam International Piano Competition. Other competition success include First prize in the Bernstein National Piano Competition, First Prize in the VMTA Geoffrey McFerran Award, and the VMTA Kault Prize for the Most Outstanding Diploma Student. Chloe has also won numerous First Prizes at the Boroondara, Ringwood, Latrobe Valley, Monash, By the Bay, & Royal South Street Eisteddfods.
Caitlin Au
Eleven-year-old Caitlin Au has been playing piano since she was three and a half, starting her musical journey with Yuko Ikeda at Suzuki Music. She now studies with Prof. Glenn Riddle at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and is a proud recipient of both academic and music scholarships at Lauriston Girls’ School.
Her dedication to music has earned her many impressive achievements, including a High Distinction result in her Certificate of Performance exam in 2023. Last year (2025) was a busy one for Caitlin. She was recently awarded First Prize in the prestigious Australian National Junior Piano Competition for Children, ‘the little Lev’, held in Brisbane. Caitlin was also awarded Distinction in the Szafarnia International Junior Chopin Competition held in Poland and won Third prize at the Vietnam International Chopin Piano Competition and Festival in Hanoi. Caitlin has also won multiple prizes at the Boroondara, Ringwood, Royal South Street and Monash Eisteddfods in Australia. In January 2025, Caitlin was also invited to perform in Kobe, Japan. In March this year Caitlin performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C major K 415 with the Mozart Festival Quartet at the 45 Downstairs Mozart Festival.
Alongside piano, Caitlin enjoys playing the violin and is a member of the Melbourne String Ensemble’s chamber program (MSE Chamber). Outside of music, she has a keen interest in science and art, and in her free time she loves reading and coding.
Charlie Wu
At just 13 years of age, Melbourne-born Charlie Wu has established himself as one of Australia’s brightest young musical talents. He is an Year 8 student at Caulfield Grammar School, and studies piano with Glenn Riddle at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
Charlie’s most recent success was being awarded the Grand Prix at the 2026 Grand Piano International Piano Competition in Moscow, one of the world’s most prestigious junior international piano competitions. Charlie is the first Australian and only the second non-Russian to with the Grand Prix. Other international successes include First Prize (and the Special Prize for a work by a Swiss composer) in the 2025 Concours International Musicale de Genève in Switzerland and Third Prize in the 2026 Hilton Head International Piano Competition in the USA. In 2024, Charlie made his concerto debut performing Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor with the Russian State Academic Symphony Orchestra in Moscow, conducted by Ivan Nikiforchin. Since then, he has performed Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D major with Les Solistes de Neuchâtel in Geneva (cond. Sergey Ostrovsky), and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 3 both with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra (USA) and more recently with the Moscow Philharmonic (cond. Oleg Hudyakov) to a jam-packed audience in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow.
Concerto performances with local orchestras include Mozart’s K 414 (with the Mozart Festival Chamber Players), Beethoven’s Triple Concerto (Cloud Concert Orchestra), Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No 1 (Preston Symphony and Whitehorse Symphony Orchestras), Liszt’s Piano Concerto No 2 in A major (Melbourne Sinfonia), and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 3 (with both the Camerata Orchestra conducted by Doug Heywood and the Maroondah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ian McDonald). In 2027 Charlie has been invited to collaborate with the Flinders Quartet in a performance of Brahm’s Piano Quintet, as well as present a solo recital in Shanghai.
Locally, Charlie’s awards include First Prize in the 2025 Boroondara Open Age Piano Concerto Competition, First Prizes in the Musical Society of Victoria’s 2025 Nehama Patkin and Eda Schurmann Awards, Firstt prize in the 2024 PolMusicA National Polish Music Competition, and the Dandenong Ranges Music Council’s 2024 Bill Borthwick Prize. In 2024 Charlie was awarded his LMusA piano Diploma with Distinction, his examiners commenting that his performance exhibited ‘exceptional qualities of artistic insight’ and ‘transcendental virtuosity’.
Charlie is a keen chamber musician, has represented Victoria in Junior tennis, and enjoys swimming and chess.