John Reid

John Reid read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he gained an MPhil in musicology 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, Maggie Teyte and English Song accompaniment prizes, the 2003 Birmingham Accompanist of the Year (joint winner) and the 2004 Gerald Moore Award, as well as the Scott Huxley, Flora Nielsen and Richard Lewis-Jean Shanks prizes at the RAM. In recognition of his achievements, he was awarded the Queen's Commendation for excellence by the Academy on graduating last summer, as well as the Shinn Junior Fellow for the academic year 2004-5.

John has performed at the Norfolk and Norwich, Salisbury, Winchester and Oxford Lieder Festivals and in the Birmingham Conservatoire, and has given recitals with Joan Rodgers and with Anthony Rolfe Johnson and the Artea Quartet. He made his Wigmore Hall debut in May 2004 with Lucy Crowe and has also given concerts at the Purcell Room (as a Park Lane Group Young Artist in 2004 and with RAM colleagues as part of the Maxwell Davies Festival in April 2005), St. John's Smith Square and the Linbury Studio. He was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Music Song Circle and is an alumnus of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme. Plans for Autumn 2005 include recitals at Wigmore Hall and the Oxford Lieder Festival with Lucy Crowe and Alexandra Sherman, at the Lucerne Festival with trumpeter Alison Balsom and at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with violinist Thomas Gould.