Lara Dodds-Eden
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Bringing international performance experience, a creative, sensitive approach to music making, and passionate commitment to every collaboration, Australian-born pianist Lara Dodds-Eden returned to live in London, UK, in 2020, after eight years of living in Canada. With a career spanning three continents as a specialist song accompanist, choral accompanist and chamber musician with extensive experience in the classical realm, Lara also revels in playing popular musics including musical theatre and pop and loves to improvise and arrange where the opportunity arises.
Lara recently completed her Doctorate as a piano student of Lydia Wong at the University of Toronto, where she was 2014-2015 winner of the Gwendolyn Koldovsky Accompaniment Prize. Her Doctoral work consisted of three full length recitals and a dissertation whilst her research into the contemporary implications of singing Lieder in English translation was supervised by Dr. Jeff Packman. In Toronto Lara accompanied the touring choir of the world-renowned Toronto Children’s Chorus, conducted by Elise Bradley, and the University of Toronto’s premiere mixed choir, Macmillan Singers, conducted by Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt and latterly, David Fallis.
Her scholarly pursuits in Canada followed a year spent as resident collaborative pianist at the Banff Centre in the Canadian Rockies, where she performed with dozens of musicians from across the world including as a soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and duo partner to cellist Gavriel Lipkind, pianist Ronan O’Hora and Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew.
This rich mountain experience came close on the heels of seven years of intensive study and performance in London, UK, which commenced with postgraduate study in Accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and went on to include many performances around the UK and further afield, including at Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Purcell Room, the Slovakian Philharmonic and Amsterdam's Het Concertgebouw. Lara performed in masterclasses with Graham Johnson, Bengt Forsberg, Sir Thomas Allen, Helmut Deutsch, Iain Burnside, Bernard Greenhouse and the Kungsbacka Trio, won the 2007 GSMD Accompaniment Prize, and was pianist with the winning ensemble in the 2007 GSMD Award for Chamber Music. In 2008 Lara performed as a Tunnell Trust Young Musician, accompanied the string prize winner and overall 2nd place winner at the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artist’s Competition, and performed with cellist John Myerscough at the Wigmore Hall. In 2009 Lara performed with cellist Matthijs Broersma at the Royal Festival Hall and they appeared again the following year at the Purcell Room. She also performed at the Crush Room of the Royal Opera House in their lunchtime series with Anna Devin, prizewinner of the Maggie Teyte Song Prize and current Jette Parker Young Artist. In February 2011 Lara performed at the Royal Festival Hall with violist Rosalind Ventris. The duo went on to perform extensively across the UK, including at the Wigmore Hall, and in Holland and the Slovak Republic through International Holland Music Sessions.
Lara performed at the Paxos International Music Festival in Greece from 2009-2013, and from 2010-2013 was Artistic Director.
Lara recently completed her Doctorate as a piano student of Lydia Wong at the University of Toronto, where she was 2014-2015 winner of the Gwendolyn Koldovsky Accompaniment Prize. Her Doctoral work consisted of three full length recitals and a dissertation whilst her research into the contemporary implications of singing Lieder in English translation was supervised by Dr. Jeff Packman. In Toronto Lara accompanied the touring choir of the world-renowned Toronto Children’s Chorus, conducted by Elise Bradley, and the University of Toronto’s premiere mixed choir, Macmillan Singers, conducted by Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt and latterly, David Fallis.
Her scholarly pursuits in Canada followed a year spent as resident collaborative pianist at the Banff Centre in the Canadian Rockies, where she performed with dozens of musicians from across the world including as a soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and duo partner to cellist Gavriel Lipkind, pianist Ronan O’Hora and Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew.
This rich mountain experience came close on the heels of seven years of intensive study and performance in London, UK, which commenced with postgraduate study in Accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and went on to include many performances around the UK and further afield, including at Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Purcell Room, the Slovakian Philharmonic and Amsterdam's Het Concertgebouw. Lara performed in masterclasses with Graham Johnson, Bengt Forsberg, Sir Thomas Allen, Helmut Deutsch, Iain Burnside, Bernard Greenhouse and the Kungsbacka Trio, won the 2007 GSMD Accompaniment Prize, and was pianist with the winning ensemble in the 2007 GSMD Award for Chamber Music. In 2008 Lara performed as a Tunnell Trust Young Musician, accompanied the string prize winner and overall 2nd place winner at the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artist’s Competition, and performed with cellist John Myerscough at the Wigmore Hall. In 2009 Lara performed with cellist Matthijs Broersma at the Royal Festival Hall and they appeared again the following year at the Purcell Room. She also performed at the Crush Room of the Royal Opera House in their lunchtime series with Anna Devin, prizewinner of the Maggie Teyte Song Prize and current Jette Parker Young Artist. In February 2011 Lara performed at the Royal Festival Hall with violist Rosalind Ventris. The duo went on to perform extensively across the UK, including at the Wigmore Hall, and in Holland and the Slovak Republic through International Holland Music Sessions.
Lara performed at the Paxos International Music Festival in Greece from 2009-2013, and from 2010-2013 was Artistic Director.
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