Martin James Bartlett was the inaugural recipient of the Prix Serdang in 2022, a Swiss prize curated by Rudolf Buchbinder. Highlights of Bartlett’s 2024–25 season include debuts at the Lucerne and Moritzburg festivals, a return to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and two chamber music recitals at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. He also returns to the Bournemouth Symphony and Nordwestdeutsche Philhamonie. Recent concerto highlights included a UK tour with the Sinfonia of London and a European tour with the LGT Young Soloists, which included performances at the Berlin Konzerthaus and Vienna Musikverein. Past seasons have seen Bartlett in recital at Wigmore Hall and Paris’s Salle Cortot.

An exclusive recording artist with Warner Classics, Bartlett has released three widely acclaimed albums on the label. La Danse (2024) focuses on solo works by Couperin, Debussy, Hahn, Rameau, and Ravel, and received five-star reviews in The Times, as well as Editor’s Choice in Gramophone. Rhapsody (2022), recorded with the London Philharmonic, featured concertos by Rachmaninoff and Gershwin. The recording was released to critical acclaim, also receiving Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice accolade and a five-star review in BBC Music Magazine.

Bartlett was named the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2014, leading to engagements with the BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, and Ulster Orchestra. In 2015, he made his BBC Proms debut performing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. And in 2019, Bartlett was awarded first place at the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York.