Nick Salwey

Professional
Membership

Location:

Winchester
United Kingdom SO23

Contact:

Meadow House
27 Kingsgate Road
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 9PG
0771 007 3959

Additional Info:

MA, MSc, DPhil, ARCM, LGSM
Piano accompanist for recitals, masterclasses and diploma exams
Nick graduated from Oxford with a 1st in Music, later gaining his doctorate there, and he has been Head of Piano at Winchester College since 2004, having previously taught at Eton College, Wycombe Abbey and Oxford University. His pupils have performed concertos by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Saint-Saens, Shostakovich & Gershwin. Nick has performed live on BBC Radio 3, ITV, Channel 4 and Classic FM, has reviewed for The Independent, New York Observer, Classical Piano and International Record Review, and he has published articles in academic journals and books in the UK and Austria. He runs the lunchtime recital series in Winchester Cathedral, with some thirty concerts each year offering performance opportunities particularly for young local musicians, and Nick also regularly plays for diploma exams, with over 200 now taught and/or accompanied (from ARSM, dip. ABRSM, LRSM, FRSM, ATCL, AMusTCL, to LTCL & FTCL). As an accompanist, Nick’s repertoire is extensive, e.g. for the cello, five Beethoven sonatas, two Brahms, and sonatas by Barber, Bridge, Britten, Chopin, Debussy, Dyson, Franck, Grieg, Hurlstone, Kodaly, Martinu, Mendelssohn, Myaskovsky, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Smyth and Strauss, and for the violin, ten Beethoven sonatas, three Brahms, and sonatas by Bach, Berkeley, Debussy, Elgar, Franck, Fuchs, Grieg, Lekeu, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Porter, Prokofiev, Schumann & Strauss, and with singers his repertoire includes song cycles by Argento, Barber, Beethoven, Britten, Butterworth, Copland, Debussy, Finzi, Gurney, Korngold, Mahler, Ravel, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Vaughan Williams and Wagner.

Instruments

Piano

Specialisms

Instrumental Accompaniment, Vocal Accompaniment

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