​Joseph Havlat is supported by Artist Angels Mary Jo Capps AM and David Kershaw​

Joseph Havlat is a pianist and composer from Hobart, Australia and based in London. He frequently works as a chamber musician, having performed with James Ehnes, Jack Liebeck, William Bennett and Steven Isserlis, he's a member of the LSO percussion ensemble with whom he has released a CD, including the premiere recording of John Adams’s ‘Roll Over Beethoven’. Passionate about modern and contemporary music, he has collaborated with such composers as Thomas Adès, Michael Finnissy, and Sir Harrison Birtwistle. In 2021 he played Adès’s ‘In Seven Days’ with the LSO under the baton of the composer, and the BBC Philharmonic gave the premiere of Robert Laidlow’s piano concerto ‘Warp'. Most recently, he gave the premiere of Adès' Növények at the Wigmore Hall. He likes ferns.