James
Baillieu
piano
BBT
Fellowship Winner
2012
James Baillieu has been the prize-winner of the Wigmore Hall, Das Lied, Kathleen Ferrier and Richard Tauber Song Competitions. He has given solo and chamber recitals throughout Europe, recording for BBC Radio 3 with the Elias String Quartet and Allan Clayton, and collaborating with Sir Thomas Allen, Katherine Broderick, Mark Padmore, Pumeza Matshikiza, Gerard Collett, Marcus Farnsworth and the Heath Quartet, among many others. He has appeared at the City of London, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh, Bergen and Aix-en-Provence festivals. During 2011 James Baillieu performed Brahms' Piano Quintet with the Heath Quartet at Spitalfields and Music in Paxton Festivals and attended the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove working with Gerhard Schulz. Engagements this season include a concert with Annette Dasch at Berlin Konzerthaus, Schubert’s Schwanengesang with Ben Johnson at Wigmore Hall broadcast by Radio 3, a recital with Eri Nakamura and Ben Johnson at St. John’s Smith Square and solo recitals in the Nottingham and Leeds International Concert series. This year he also gives a series of recitals with flautist Adam Walker and records with him for Sonimage. James Baillieu works regularly at the Georg Solti Accademia, Encuentro de Santander and the Royal Opera House. He is an alumnus of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and was selected by Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2010. James Baillieu was appointed a Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in 2011 and was awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2012.
Photograph taken by Benjamin Harte
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