Music

Marius is an accomplished pianist and composer, and has held full music scholarships as a school pupil (2000-07) and university undergraduate (2008-10). He is a past prizewinner of music performance and composition competitions in the UK, Ireland, Germany, and Sweden, and his pieces have been performed at venues across the UK and Germany. As a composer, Marius takes his stylistic inspiration from the works of J.S. Bach and Béla Bartók, Paul Hindemith and Dmitri Shostakovich, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. His pieces and performances can be found on the YouTube channel The Piano Diaries.

Selected recordings

Suite-sonata degli ostinati​ (2020)

Reverie (2020)

A leaving gift to All Souls College, University of Oxford, as a sign of leaving Fellowship to start a new job elsewhere.

Written as a present for his partner's birthday, in memory of a very faithful and beloved family pet!

Concert Fantasia on Bella Ciao (2020)

J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variations​ (1741)

Composed to mark the 75th anniversary of V.E. Day, in homage to La Resistenza and antifascism everywhere.

A morale-boosting piano diary recorded in the first Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, one variation per day.

Béla Bartók - Romanian Folk Dances​ (1915)

A suite based on folk melodies from localities in Banat, Crișana, and Ardeal, at the time under Hungarian rule.

C. Hubert H. Parry - Elegy in A-flat major (1913)

Originally written for the funeral of Sidney, 14th Earl of Pembroke, it came to symbolise the loss and grief of WW1.