Classical Coffee Mornings: Oliver Warne-Holland and Reuben Moisey at Royal Albert Hall

Starts: 10:00am, Doors: 9:15am

Exceptional young pianists Oliver Warne-Holland and Reuben Moisey take to the Elgar Room stage to perform works by Chopin, Debussy and Scriabin.

A hot drink and a pastry are included in the ticket price.

In partnership with the Royal College of Music London. Please note that Classical Coffee Mornings often sell out and tickets are rarely available to purchase on the day.

Oliver Warne-Holland began teaching himself piano during the first COVID-19 lockdown between March and October 2020, aged 12, using YouTube tutorials. He progressed rapidly by learning increasingly challenging pieces, including Chopin, which he memorised and played fluently—despite not being able to read standard notation properly. After lockdown, he had his first formal lesson with Andrew Yiangou, which inspired him to learn to read music. 

Beginning with the John Thompson books, he took weekly 30-minute remote lessons, progressing quickly through the ABRSM grades.  In May 2022, he passed ABRSM Grade 5 Theory with distinction and was already playing well beyond Grade 8 level. That same year, he was honoured to receive the Eileen Rowe Musical Trust Award, with Vanessa Latarche as the principal judge. This support enabled him to continue studying with Andrew and also gain valuable face-to-face lesson time in a London studio. In July 2022, he took the ABRSM Grade 8 Performance exam and was awarded a distinction.

Reuben Moisey was awarded an ATCL diploma with Distinction at age 12 and joined the Royal College of Music Junior Department in 2021, where he studies piano with his father, Alvin. He has won multiple prizes, including the Ruby White Prize (2022), the Angela Bull Prize (2023), and the Lord Mayor of London’s Junior Musician Award (2024), after which he gave a recital at the Mansion House. He was a finalist in RCMJD chamber music competitions (2024, 2025) and highly commended in the Peter Morrison Concerto Competition for his Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Reuben made his concerto debut in 2022 with the Ealing Symphony Orchestra, performing Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto and Lutosawski’s Paganini Variations. He later returned to play Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody, which he has also performed twice in Japan. In 2023 and 2024, he played Mozart’s D minor Concerto, K.466, in Chester and London. At age 10, he completed a charity concert tour across Britain, cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats and giving recitals en route.

Outside music, Reuben is the European Under-21 Scrabble champion, has represented the UK four times at the World Scrabble Championships, and beat “Chaser” Anne Hegerty by over 200 points on ITV’s Child Genius in 2021.