EDWARD LIDDALL

Edward Liddall is a British pianist, in demand as a recitalist, vocal coach, and repetiteur. He has performed at venues and festivals worldwide as a solo pianist, and as a chamber musician, including at The Barbican, The Wigmore Hall, The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, and Les Invalides, Musée d'Orsay and Salle Cortot, Paris. He has been invited to give concerts with artists such as Lisette Oropesa, Jodie Devos, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur and Eugénie Joneau. As laureates of The Academy Orsay-Royaumont, he recorded a CD with Grace Durham in 2021, and took part in an international tour from 2021-22, which included recitals at Wigmore Hall and Musée d'Orsay. In July 2018, he took part in the ‘L’art du recital’ residency with the soprano Louise Kemeny under the tuition of Stéphane Degout and Alain Planès, as part of the Aix-en-Provence Festival Academy. He was a finalist in the 2019 Parkhouse Awards with violinist Amarins Wierdsma and at The YCAT 2017 auditions at The Wigmore Hall as a collaborative pianist; won the accompaniment prize at the 2015 Maureen Lehane awards; and was a finalist in the 2015 Royal Overseas League Competition as a solo pianist. In 2016 attended IMS Prussia Cove, where, together with cellist Leander Kippenberg, he studied with Thomas Ades.

He is regularly invited to teach and work with young artists internationally. In July 2023, he will work on the Young Artists Programme at the Salzburg festival, and was recently an official accompanist for the prestigious Neue Stimmen vocal competition in Gutersloh, in Germany. Also in demand as a repetiteur, since working as a Young Artist at The Academy of the Opéra National de Paris 2018-21, he has since worked on productions across Europe, returning regularly to The Opéra National de Paris.

He completed a Junior Fellowship at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama under the tutelage of Caroline Palmer, having previously completed a Masters degree (with distinction) there. Prior to this, he studied privately with Thalia Myers.