Ian Tindale

Location:

London
United Kingdom SW12

Additional Info:

Ian Tindale is a prize-winning piano accompanist, répétiteur, harpsichordist and orchestral keyboard player. Now primarily working as a song accompanist, Ian was awarded the Help Musicians UK Accompanist's Prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Awards in April 2015 and the Royal Overseas League Music Competition Accompanist's Prize in June the same year, following performances on both occasions with soprano Soraya Mafi. Previously Ian had been named winner of the Gerald Moore Award, the Help Musicians UK Accompanist’s Prize in the Maggie Teyte Competition, and the Association of English Singers and Speakers Accompanist’s Prize (Courtney Kenny Competition).

Ian has performed with singers at venues across London, the UK and in Europe. Recent engagements have included concerts at Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, St John’s Smith Square as well as at the Oxford Lieder Festival, Ryedale Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Buxton Festival and further afield in France, Austria, Corfu and Malta. Ian is also a Samling Artist and a Britten-Pears Young Artist, and he has an ongoing relationship with Samling Academy as an accompanist and coach. He has recently performed with established artists such as Christopher Purves and Susan Bullock, and Ian regularly collaborates with rising stars Soraya Mafi, Anna Harvey, Eleanor Dennis, Nick Pritchard, Timothy Connor and Timothy Nelson among others. He has performed on BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’ on numerous occasions, and he recently appeared on BBC2 ‘Proms Extra’ with Ailish Tynan.

Ian, originally from Oxfordshire, read Music at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was also Organ Scholar. He graduated with a double First in 2011, receiving the Tony Bland Prize for academic achievement, the Williamson Prize for performance and the Brian Runnett Prize for organ. In 2013 Ian graduated from the Master of Performance course in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal College of Music (RCM) with Distinction following studies with Simon Lepper, John Blakely and Roger Vignoles. Subsequently Ian was the Lord and Lady Lurgan Junior Fellow in Piano Accompaniment at the RCM, and he was also involved in concerts celebrating the songs of Poulenc, Britten, Jonathan Dove, Vaughan Williams and Wolf.

As a répétiteur Ian has worked with British Youth Opera (The Bartered Bride, 2012), Cambridge Handel Opera (Atalanta, 2013), Ryedale Festival Opera (The Coronation of Poppea, 2014) and Samling Academy Opera (L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, 2015). He performs frequently as a harpsichordist and continuo player, including with Eboracum Baroque, the Saraband Consort and London Baroque Sinfonia. In July 2016 Ian returned to the Ryedale Festival as Music Director and harpsichordist of Handel’s Alcina, in addition to giving a song recital with local young singers and a solo organ late-night Bach recital. As an orchestral keyboard player Ian has appeared with the BBC Symphony Orchestra on BBC Radio 3 and with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera. Please visit www.iantindale.com for more information.

Fees

£ 40.00 Pounds Per Hour

Instruments

Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Electronic Keyboard

Specialisms

Early Music, Contemporary Music, Instrumental Accompaniment, Vocal Accompaniment, Vocal Repetiteur, Musical Theatre, Musical Direction

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