The Next Recital
Monday, 23 March 2026
The Main Hall at St Peter’s Church, Cnr Gisborne and Albert Streets, East Melbourne.
Enter via doors next to BookroomAGM 11.00 am
11.45 am for Refreshments with the Recital 12.30 pm - 1.30 pm
Visitors $20. Members $15. Students $10.
Tea/coffee and biscuits provided - BYO sandwiches.Please notify the Austral Salon of your intention to attend or book below.
For further information see About page
JASMINE LAI PIANO
18-year-old Jasmine Lai is a multi-awarded young composer-pianist. She studies piano with Glenn Riddle and is currently a second-year scholarship student at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
In 2021, Jasmine won 1st 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 Melbourne Recital Centre. Recently she won Hephzibah Menuhin Memorial Award from Music Society Victoria and was the Second Prize winner of 2025 3MBS Victorian Young Performer Award. Other major awards include the 2021 Margaret Green Junior Pianoforte Scholarship, the 2022 Phyllis MacDonald Piano Scholarship, as well as the Musical Society Victoria’s Des Stevenson, Eda Schurmann, and Nehama Patkin Memorial Piano Awards.
Jasmine 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. Internationally, she recently won the Prodigy prize from ArsClassica International Junior Competition and finished with a solo recital in Rome in December 2025.
Besides piano solo performance, Jasmine is also active as a composer and has had works performed by different youth orchestras in Australia. She was the winner of Music Society Victoria’s David Henkel Composition Award in 2021 and the youngest Australian composer who received the 2024 Australian Broadcasting Corporation Composer Commissioning Fund with her new composition “Liminality” performed by Ensemble Liaison. The recording was digitally released and aired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Everyone is welcome to attend this wonderful recital by Jasmine.
