Anna Tillbrook

Anna Tilbrook is one of Britain's most exciting pianists, with a considerable reputation in song recitals and chamber music. She made her debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1999 and has since become a regular performer at major concert halls and festivals.

Anna has collaborated with many leading singers and instrumentalists including James Gilchrist, Lucy Crowe, Sarah Tynan, Willard White, Barbara Bonney, Mark Padmore, Stephan Loges, Ian Bostridge, Janis Kelly, Christopher Maltman, Victoria Simmonds, Christine Rice, Gillian Keith, Nick Daniel, Natalie Clein, Adrian Brendel, Gemma Rosefield and the Fitzwilliam, Sacconi and Elias String Quartets.

With James Gilchrist she has made acclaimed recordings of 20^th-century English song, including Vaughan Williams's On Wenlock Edge with the Fitzwilliam String Quartet (a finalist in 2008 Gramophone Awards), a disc of Lennox Berkeley Songs for Chandos and Schubert’s Die Schone Mullerin for Orchid which received great critical acclaim and was Editors Choice in Gramophone in November 2009. Most recently released is a disc of Britten and Leighton for Linn and Schubert’s Schwanengesang with Beethoven’s  An die ferne Geliebte for Orchid.

Recent engagements have included recitals at the Wigmore Hall, King’s Place, St John’s Smith Square, Aldeburgh Festival, Perth Concert Hall, Derry Guildhall, Three Choirs Festival, LSO St.Lukes’, Oxford Lieder Festival, Music at Oxford, St.David’s Festival, Leicester International Music Festival, Wroclaw Cantans Festival, Poland and the Anima Mundi Festival in Pisa, Italy. In 2006 Anna made her conducting debut at the Buxton Festival directing Telemann’s Pimpinone from the harpsichord. She also regularly coaches the Young Artists at the Royal Opera House and in June 2011 repetiteured for and played in the performances of Britten’s Rape of Lucretia for the Aldeburgh Festival in Snape, Amsterdam and Luxembourg with a cast featuring Angelika Kirckschlager & Ian Bostridge.

Forthcoming engagements include recitals in the Wigmore Hall, LSO St.Luke’s and in Carnegie Hall, New York with Lucy Crowe.

Born in Hertfordshire, Anna studied music at York University and at the Royal Academy of Music with Julius Drake, where she was a major prizewinner and in 2009 was made an Associate. She now lives in London.

www.annatilbrook.co.uk 

"Anna Tilbrook is an outstanding accompanist: discreet when necessary, but also able to make the simplest phrase or chordal progression tell without a touch of exaggeration." (BBC Music Magazine).

 "Superb" (Michael Kennedy, Sunday Telegraph). "Anna Tilbrook is excellent" (John Steane, Gramophone)