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John Reid read music at Clare College,
Cambridge, before taking up a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music
with Michael Dussek. He has also taken lessons in song interpretation with Malcolm
Martineau and, privately in Amsterdam, with Rudolf Jansen. His many awards include
the 2003 Kathleen Ferrier and Maggie Teyte accompaniment prizes, the 2003 Birmingham
Accompanist of the Year (joint first prize), the 2004 Gerald Moore Award and the
Queen's Commendation for excellence, presented by the Academy.
John
has made a number of significant recital debuts during the course of recent seasons:
at Wigmore Hall in May 2004 (with soprano Lucy Crowe); at the Purcell Room (as
a 2004 Park Lane Group Young Artist); in Berlin and at the Mecklenburg Festival
(with flautist Adam Walker) and in Switzerland, Italy and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
(with trumpeter Alison Balsom). He has partnered distinguished singers Joan Rodgers
and Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, flautist William Bennett, cellist Alexander Baillie
and violinist Jennifer Pike and, together with his regular duo partner, violinist
Thomas Gould, he has performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater
Hall, St. George's Brandon Hill, Purcell Room and in festivals across the UK.
He is a regular member of the Aurora Orchestra, with whom he has appeared at the
Aldeburgh Festival, and he joined the contemporary music ensemble Radius
for debuts at Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Centre during 2007.
John
is an alumnus of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and was a founder member
of the Royal Academy of Music Song Circle, whose debut disc ('Songs of Spring')
was released to critical acclaim. Other recent projects include first recordings
of music by Charles Camilleri (on Divine Art), Rhian Samuel (on Deux-Elles), and
Clifford Benson (Landor Records). He is shortly to record music for two pianos
by York Bowen, with Michael Dussek, for Dutton Epoch.
John
was recently elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
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