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ANNABEL THWAITE piano studied solo piano with
Joan Havill and accompaniment at the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama and the Conservatoire National
Supérieur de Musique et Danse, Paris, and has been the
recipient of numerous scholarships. Recognised as one
of the most versatile and charismatic accompanists, she
has won all the major accompanying prizes, including the
2004 piano prize at the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier
Competition; in 2005 and 2007 she won the Gold Medal
Prize at the Barbican Hall and the Piano Prize at the
Richard Tauber Competition at the Wigmore Hall. Already
this year she has collaborated with renowned artists such
as Roberto Alagna and Amanda Roocroft and received
private tuition with Wolfgang Holzmair and Brigitte
Fassbaender.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Annabel has
performed across Europe and in Canada and South
Africa. Her UK performances have included Birmingham
Symphony Hall, the Barbican, Cadogan Hall, Wigmore
Hall with the cellist Mats Lindström, the Purcell Room, St
John’s, Smith Square, Snape Maltings and the Oxford and
Leeds Lieder Festivals.
Annabel was the Lied pianist at the prestigious Mozarteum
Academy in Salzburg, and at the Dartington and
Charterhouse International summer festivals. She is
the official accompanist
to the London Welsh
Male Voice Choir, and
in 2007 and 2009 she
was the accompanist
at the Young Welsh
Singer of the Year and
Hampshire Singer of
the Year competitions
Annabel has recorded
for Universal Records
with Nicky Spence, the
Scottish tenor, whose
album was nominated for a classical Brit award, and she
is also a regular film session pianist, having recently
recorded the soundtrack to the movie Awake and the BBC
Jane Austen series Emma at Abbey Road. Her extensive
teaching and accompanying experience includes coaching
at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Pro Corda
Trust, the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute, Junior Trinity
College of Music and Francis Holland School.
Future engagements include a busy schedule of solo,
instrumental and song recitals and accompanying 1,000
voices at the Royal Albert Hall in October 2010.