Roger Vignoles

Roger Vignoles is internationally recognised as one of the world’s most distinguished piano accompanists and musicians of today. Originally inspired to pursue a career as a piano accompanist by the playing of Gerald Moore, he read Music at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and later joined the Royal Opera House as a repetiteur, completing his training with Paul Hamburger.

He has collaborated with such leading singers as Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Elisabeth Söderström, Sir Thomas Allen, Christine Brewer, Brigitte Fassbaender, Dame Felicity Lott and Mark Padmore among others, and appears at venues such as Vienna Musikverein, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall New York, and the Wigmore Hall London.

Roger Vignoles is also an outstanding teacher and has regularly gives masterclasses in the UK, Europe and the USA. Roger is Prince Consort Professor of Accompaniment at the Royal College of Music, Vice President of the Jackdaws Music Education Trust, and has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Magdalene College, Cambridge honoris causa.

His extensive discography ranges from German Lieder and French Melodies to Spanish Canciones and Cabaret Songs. Recent recordings include Loewe Songs and Ballads with Florian Boesch, and the Strauss Complete Songs for Hyperion. His recording of Britten’s Winter Words, Holy Sonnets of John Donne and Before Life and After with Mark Padmore on Harmonia Mundi received a Diapason d’Or and Prix Caecilia in 2009.

Highlights in 2011/12 include his song recital series at the Wigmore Hall, a North American tour with Florian Boesch, a European tour with Elina Garanca, and various masterclasses both in the UK and abroad.

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