Jayson Gillham

Australian pianist Jayson Gillham has parlayed his earlier child prodigy status into a growing career at home and in Europe. Gillham was born in 1986 in Dalby, Queensland. He started piano lessons at age four and soon after that made his debut with a Bach minuet at the local Dalby Eisteddfod festival, and he took home first prize in his age section there at seven. He began lessons that year with a teacher in Toowoomba, an hour away, and then at 14, commuted to Brisbane for studies with Leah Horowitz. After a semifinal placement at the Sydney International Piano Competition, he...