Libby Burgess
Pianist Libby Burgess is well-known on concert stages across Britain, playing regularly in the country’s major halls and festivals, and on Radio 3.
Recent months have ranged from song recitals with Benjamin Appl, Ashley Riches and Mark Padmore to concerts with cellist Jonathan Aasgaard and clarinettist Julian Bliss; recordings with the BBC Singers; performances of The Rite of Spring in piano duet with Chris Hopkins; and a tour in Germany with Stephan Loges of global songs spanning Japan to Nigeria and Argentina – ‘Winterreise-Weltreise’.
Her ongoing nationwide solo Bach tour has so far raised over £32,000 for musical charities. Libby is the founding Artistic Director of New Paths Music, where she has curated sixteen festivals in the East Yorkshire town of Beverley. She is a vocal coach at the Royal Academy of Music, was formerly Head of Keyboard at Eton College, and is a regular guest at Chetham’s School of Music and National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. Libby has worked with Oxford Bach Choir for 25 years, starting out as student accompanist and graduating to guest conductor and soloist; she is proud to be a Vice President of the choir.
