Upcoming performances:

Sunday, 29 October 2017
Recital
4.00pm, Bad Ems, Germany

Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Recital
7.00pm, Lansdowne Club, London, UK

Saturday, 24 February 2018
Recital
5.00pm, Rysum, Germany

Sunday, 25 February 2018
Recital
5.00pm, Malente, Germany

Saturday, 28 April 2018
Recital
5.00pm, Morsbach, Germany

Sunday, 29 April 2018
Recital
5.00pm, Meerbusch, Germany

Saturday, 13 October 2018
Recital
5.00pm, Papenburg, Germany

Sunday, 14 October 2018
Recital
5.00pm, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

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Past performances:

Thursday, 15 June 2017
“Performing Schumann on 19th-century pianos”
Lecture-recital
6.00pm, Piano Gallery, Royal Academy of Music Museum, London, UK

Sunday, 6 June 2017
Recital
5.00pm, Rösrath, Germany

Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Recital
7.00pm, Altdorf, Switzerland

Sunday, 14 May 2017
Recital
5.00pm, Nottuln, Germany

Saturday, 13 May 2017
Recital
5.00pm, Pappenburg, Germany

Sunday, 12 March 2017
Recital
5.00pm, Soest, Germany

Sunday, 19 February 2017
Recital
5.00pm, Remscheid, Germany

Saturday, 18 February 2017
Recital
5.00pm, Bad Rehburg, Germany

Sunday, 12 February 2017
Recital
5.00pm, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

Sunday, 5 February 2017
Recital
5.00pm, Offenburg, Germany

Saturday, 4 February 2017
Recital
5.00pm, Lahr, Germany

Friday, 3 February 2017
Recital
7.00pm, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Sunday, 11 December 2016
Recital
7.00pm, Darlington Concert Society, UK

Sunday, 23 October 2016
Recital
5.00pm, Hamburg, Germany

Sunday, 3 July 2016
Recital
15.30pm, Church of St Anne, Richmond, London, UK

Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Recital
7.00pm, Lansdowne Club, London, UK

Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Recital
1.00pm, Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands Park, UK

Friday, 22 April to Sunday, 24 April 2016
“The Historical Pianist: A Conference-Festival”
Royal Academy of Music and the Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands Park, UK

Sunday, 20 March 2016
Recital
5.00pm, Aachen, Germany

Tuesday, 1 March 2016
“Victorian Virtuosity: Sterndale Bennett and Romantic Pianism”
Lecture-recital
6.00pm, Piano Gallery, Royal Academy of Music Museum, London, UK

Monday, 29 February 2016
“William Sterndale Bennett: Student, Professor and Principal”
Research presentation with Janet Snowman, Curator of Art and Iconography, and Barry Sterndale-Bennett, WSB’s great-great-grandson
6.00pm, Piano Gallery, Royal Academy of Music Museum, London, UK

Friday, 26 February 2016
“Sterndale Bennett, Mendelssohn and Piatti: Cello and Piano”
Lecture-recitals with Job ter Haar, cello
2.30pm & 6.00pm, Piano Gallery, Royal Academy of Music Museum, London, UK

Friday, 19 February 2016
Recital
1.00pm, Cardiff University/National Museum of Wales, UK

Thursday, 11 February 2016
Lecture-demonstration: “Victorian Virtuosity”
6.00pm Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
http://www.mkg-hamburg.de/en/calendar/termine-finden/alle-termine/jahr/2016/monat/2/tag/11/mode/day.html

Monday, 9 November 2015
Recital, Ripon Cathedral Concert Society
7.30pm, Ripon Cathedral, UK
http://www.riponconcerts.co.uk/?id=96

Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Recital, programme introduces new CD, Liszt: The Art of Remembering
7pm for 7.30pm start, central London, UK
Booking info

Saturday, 17 October 2015
Recital, Plumley Collection
6pm, Arundel, UK
http://plumleycollection.co.uk/coming-events/

Friday, 11 October 2015
Recital
5pm, Gehrden, Germany
http://weltklassik.de/index.php?page=termine&id=415

Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Public lecture recital at RAM “Recording and Programming Historical Instruments”
6pm, Piano Gallery, Royal Academy of Music, London
http://www.ram.ac.uk/whats-on/event/recording-programming-historical-instruments

Monday, 15 June 2015
Paper presentation for ‘Arrangements, Performance, and the Work Concept 1700-1900 Study Day’
Senate House Library, University of London

Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Public lecture recital at RAM “Original Keyboards: Artefacts or Instruments?”
6pm, Piano Gallery, Royal Academy of Music, London

Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Public research event with violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved concentrating on the Liszt-Lafont collaboration in the Grand duo concertant and featuring an 1840 Érard grand piano.
12.30pm and 6pm, Piano Gallery, Royal Academy of Music, London

Wednesday, 28 January 2015
A recital of music by Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Liszt.
7.30pm, Princess Alexandra Hall, ROSL, London https://oliviasham-recital.eventbrite.co.uk

Tuesday, 27 November 2014
Soundbox, a public research event with violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved.
12.30pm, Piano Gallery, Royal Academy of Music, London

Friday, 24 October 2014
Recital of Mozart (Sonata in D, K.284) and Bach (Partita no.6 in E minor, BWV 830) on a 1774 Shudi and Broadwood harpsichord
7.00pm, Fenton House, London
https://kiosk.iristickets.co.uk/k?v=NTIBO&item_type=103&general_event_event=fa3580ea-8128-4977-96a6-4b2082d607f5&SESSION_ID=7JTD9mCZQICbQ17qQZyTIvi8kMR/XG6b

Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Recital of Beethoven (Sonata in C, op.53) and Liszt (Transcendental Etude no.10 ‘Ricordanza’ and Réminiscences de Norma on an 1845 Érard grand piano
12.00pm, Hatchlands Park, UK
http://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/concerts.html

Thursday, 4 September 2014
Recital of solo Liszt works at the Doctors in Performance festival conference
2.00pm, Helsinki Music Centre, Finland

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Recital, 7.30pm
Princess Alexandra Hall, Royal Over-Seas League Club, Park Place, St James’s St, London SW1
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/piano-recital-by-olivia-sham-tickets-9025394197

Thursday, 7 March 2013
Recital: Liszt’s Work, 7:30pm
Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music
Pre-concert event at 6:30pm in the Royal Academy of Music Museum’s Piano Gallery.
http://www.ram.ac.uk/events?event_id=1713
Go to the Project Liszt page for more details.

Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Recital, 7:30pm
The Leyton Season
Leyton Sixth Form College, Essex Road, Leyton, London E10 6EQ, UK
http://www.lsc-season.co.uk/season-calendar.php

Monday, 12 November 2012
Recital: Late Liszt, 7:30pm
David Josefowitz Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music
http://www.ram.ac.uk/events?event_id=1576
Go to the Project Liszt page for more details.

Thursday, 28 June 2012
Recital, 2:00pm
17th Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music
University of Edinburgh, UK

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Lunchtime recital, 1:15pm with Sam Furness (tenor)
The Temple Church, Temple, London EC4Y 7BB
LISZT Tre sonnetti di Petrarca; Oh! quand je dors

Friday, 15 June 2012
Recital: Liszt and the Art of Remembering, 6pm
Piano Gallery, Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HT, UK
http://www.ram.ac.uk/events?event_id=1306
Throughout his long life Liszt frequently re-composed pieces, making new decisions that corresponded to his musical and personal evolution. This event, using the Piano Gallery’s 1840 Erard and 1920 Steinway pianos, pieces together such re-compositions and places them in both a musical and instrumental context to suggest the significance of nostalgia in Liszt’s music.
Go to the Project Liszt page for more details.

Saturday, 3 March 2012
Recital, 7:30pm
South Holland Concerts
Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK

Saturday, 25 February 2012
Recital, 7:30pm
Roseland Music Society
Portscatho Memorial Hall, UK

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Recital: A Lisztian Self-Portrait, 7:30pm
Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music
http://www.ram.ac.uk/events?event_id=1083
Go to the Project Liszt page for more details.

Friday, 20 January 2012
Recital, 7:30pm
Seaford Music Society
Seaford, UK

Thursday, 12 January 2012
Recital, with Boyan Ivanov (clarinet)
Seaton Music Society
Devon, UK

Saturday, 7 January 2012
Recital, with Boyan Ivanov (clarinet)
Sidmouth Concert Society

Saturday, 3 December 2011
Recital, 7:30pm
Darlington Piano Society
Darlington Arts Centre, UK
http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/darlingtonpiano/page39.phtml

Thursday, 24 November 2011
Lunchtime recital, 1pm
St Mary’s Aylesbury Music
St.Mary’s Church, St Mary’s Square, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP20 2JJ
http://www.bucksinfo.net/musicatlunchtime/

Saturday, 12 November 2011
Recital, with Boyan Ivanov (clarinet)
Leighton Buzzard Music Club

Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Recital, 7:45pm
Letchworth Music Club
Howgills Friends Meeting House, Letchworth, UK
http://lgc.amolad.net/musicclub/programme.htm

Monday, 7 November 2011
Recital, 7:30pm
Ashford Music Society
Norton Knatchbull School, Ashford, Kent, UK

Thursday, 20 October 2011
Recital, 7:30pm
North Cumbria Recitals
St Cuthbert’s Church, Carlisle, UK
http://www.carlislediocese.org.uk/news/843/336/North-Cumbria-Recitals.html

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Recital, 7:15pm
Sunderland Pianoforte Society
Sunderland, UK
http://sunderlandpianofortesociety.org/full-recital-schedule-2011-2012/

Monday, 3 October 2011
Recital, 7:30pm
Ripon Cathedral Concert Society
Ripon Cathedral, UK
http://www.riponconcerts.co.uk/default.asp?id=53

Friday, 30 September 2011
Recital, 7:30pm
Hoylake Chamber Concert Society
Hoylake, Merseyside, UK
http://www.chamberconcert.co.uk/sep11.html

Saturday, 6 August 2011
Recital, 8:00pm
Music at St Peter’s
Wallingford, UK

Thursday, 16 June 2011
Recital: Liszt’s Songs: Unheard Words for Piano, 7:30pm, with Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano), Sam Furness (tenor) and Gareth John (baritone)
Concert Room, Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HT, UK
Combining the songs of Franz Liszt with his solo piano works can offer revealing insights on the composer and his music. The programme for this concert includes both well-known pieces and rarities, such as the Petrarch Sonnets in their various incarnations for voice and piano solo.
Go to the Project Liszt page for more details.

Sunday, 17 April 2011
Recital, 3:00pm, with Boyan Ivanov (clarinet)
Cromer Music Evenings
Templewood, Frogshall, Northrepps, UK

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Lunchtime concert, solo and duo with Boyan Ivanov (clarinet)
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, UK

Friday, 8 April 2011
Recital: Liszt and the Changing Piano, 6pm
Piano Gallery, Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HT, UK
http://www.ram.ac.uk/events?event_id=537
A concert exploring the links between Franz Liszt’s changing compositional technique and the development of the nineteenth-century piano. The performance uses the Piano Gallery’s 1840 Erard and 1920 Steinway.
Go to the Project Liszt page for more details.

Friday, 1 April 2011
Research Forum: Chopin in Paris, 2:30-4pm
Piano Gallery, Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HT, UK
http://www.ram.ac.uk/events?event_id=510
Chopin in Paris: Recreating the composer-virtuoso’s debut at Pierre Baillot’s Chamber Music Society. Chopin made his debut at Pierre Baillot’s chamber music society in 1832, sharing the stage with, amongst others, Ferdinand Hiller and Chrétien Urhan. Peter Sheppard Skærved and Olivia Sham present an exploration of that evening, focussing on the Pleyel piano in the Academy Museum, identical to the one that Chopin would have played.

CHOPIN Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor, op.11

Sunday, 13 March 2011
Recital, 3:00pm, with Boyan Ivanov (clarinet)
Bracknell Forest Music Society
Recital Room, South Hill Park, Ringmead, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 7PA, UK
http://www.southhillpark.org.uk/perfdetail.jsp?id=11279&eventtype=Classical%20Music&dt=13%20Mar&dy=Sun&tm=3.00pm&range=all&eventtypeid=2

Friday, 11 March 2011
Recital, 7:30pm
Kidderminster Classical Music Society
Kidderminster Library Gallery, Market Street, Kidderminster, UK
http://www.ephotobooks.co.uk/cms/index.htm

Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Recital, 7:30pm
Bideford Music Club
Methodist Church Hall, High Street, Bideford, UK
http://www.eduncan.biz/BMClub/Home.html

Saturday, 22 January 2011
Recital, 8:00pm
Holmes Chapel Music Society
Holmes Chapel Leisure Centre, off Selkirk Drive, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7DZ, UK
http://www.themusicsociety.org.uk/39th/jan.htm

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Recital, 7:30pm
Boston Concert Club
Sam Newsom Music Centre, 28 South Street, Boston, Lincolnshire PE21 6HT, UK

Friday, 14 January 2011
Recital, 7:30pm
Witney Music Society
Wood Green School, Woodstock Road, Witney OX28 1DX, UK
http://www.witneymusicsociety.org.uk/January%20Concert.htm

Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Lunchtime concert, 1:10pm
Theatre Palmer G10, Reading University, UK

Friday, 15 October 2010
Exhibition launch: Liszt/Chopin, 6:00pm
Piano Gallery, Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London, UK
http://www.ram.ac.uk/events/Pages/default.aspx

Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Recital, 7:30pm
St Mary’s Church, Aylesbury, Bucks, UK

Sunday, 26 September 2010
Recital, 3:00pm
Cromer Music Evenings
Templewood, Frogshall, Northrepps, UK

Friday, 3 September 2010
Lunchtime concert, 1:00pm
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, UK
http://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/jserv/concerts/view.jsp?id=3216&command=concert