Christopher Guild

Christopher Guild is increasingly well known for his work on the piano music of Scotland and the rest of the British Isles. Hailing from the Speyside region of Moray in north-east Scotland, he has performed as soloist and chamber musician at some of the most prestigious concert venues in the UK, including the Wigmore Hall, St John’s, Smith Square, the Purcell Room and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Following his studies at St Mary’s Music School, Edinburgh, and as a Foundation Scholar with Andrew Ball at the Royal College of Music, London, his career was launched with invitations to tour the UK under the auspices of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme, and to perform on the South Bank in London as a Park Lane Group Young Artist. While still a student, he performed as an orchestral keyboardist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and City of London Sinfonia. He has worked with numerous composers, among them Judith Weir, and co-founded the Edison Ensemble, a contemporary-music group based in London. After a year’s tenure as the Richard Carne Junior Fellow in Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, he went on to become Head of Instrumental Music at the Godolphin School in Wiltshire. Now based in the south of England, he is a visiting teacher at Dean Close School (Cheltenham), Solihull School (West Midlands) and the Gloucestershire Academy of Music. From 2015 to 2022 he was a teacher of Musicianship, Advanced Theory and Piano at Junior Trinity, the Saturday school of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. He lectured on Francis George Scott and Ronald Stevenson at the Musica Scotica Annual Conference in 2019, and has written articles on Scottish classical music for iScot magazine.

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