Welcome to my website, where I’ve centralised my work as a pianist, writer and educator.
I’m a current PhD candidate in musicology at the University of Cambridge, funded by a Vice-Chancellor's & Rosalie Crawford Girton Studentship. Supervised by Professor Bettina Varwig, my research centres on harpsichord music and culture in seventeenth-century France, particularly in Paris and Versailles.
Before Cambridge, I studied music at King’s College, London (BMus), the University of Oxford (MSt), and the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (MMus, PGDip) where I specialised in piano performance. At college I focused on the song repertoire, becoming a member of the RNCM Songsters and winning first prize in the inaugural Williams-Howard Memorial Competition. In 2023, I was made a Leeds Lieder Young Artist with soprano Georgie Malcolm; I also joined the University of Cambridge Lieder Scheme alongside tenor James Gant.
I’m incredibly lucky to have received tuition and guidance from Murray McLachlan, Richard Ormrod, Joseph Middleton and Simon Lepper, and to have performed in public masterclasses for Steven Osborne, Graham Johnson and Sir Thomas Allen. In 2022 I performed alongside Sir Stephen Hough in his song cycle And Other Love Songs.
Over the years I have received generous financial support from the Help Musicians UK, Northumberland Estates, the Ogeleby Charitable Trust, the Headley Trust, and the Eric Horner Award. Without the financial support of these generous donors my studies would have been impossible. Thank you.