Simon Crawford-Phillips

Simon Crawford-Phillips is developing an unusually diverse career as soloist, chamber musician and song accompanist. A Masters Degree and a Fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama followed his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He continues studying with Ferenc Rados.
Recent concerto performances have included Beethoven, Mozart, Shostakovich, Schumann and Stravinsky with orchestras such as ViVA, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra and the Academy of St.Martin in the fields and December 2007 saw his concerto debut in Japan with the NHK Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Alan Gilbert.
The 2007/08 season includes concerto performances with the BBC Scottish Orchestra.
Simon frequently works with singers such as Emma Bell, Measha Brueggergosman, Alice Coote, Sarah Fox, James Gilchrist, Andrew Kennedy and Robert Murray, and instrumentalists Emily Beynon, Colin Currie, Martin Frost, Richard Hosford, Pekka Kuusisto, Lawrence Power, Christian Poltera, and Roger Tapping. He also appears regularly as a guest with the Nash Ensemble, ECO chamber ensemble, Leopold String Trio and Dante String Quartet.
Simon is a founding member of the Kungsbacka Piano Trio, which was selected in 2000 for the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme. In 2003, the trio made its Carnegie Hall debut and appeared at major European Concert Halls, including the Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus and Cologne Philharmonie. Concerts in 2005 included debuts at the Berlin Philharmonie, Schwetzinger Festspiele and Muziekcentrum Vredensburg in Utrecht and a tour of Argentina and Uruguay. 2007 saw its debut tour of Australia and New Zealand. The trio has recorded for the NAXOS and BIS labels. The complete Mozart trios are due for release in November 2008.
In 2001 Simon made his BBC Proms debut with his piano duo partner Philip Moore and in 2004 the Duo received a Borletti-Buitoni Fellowship and were appointed Steinway Artists. Highlights in 2005 included debut concerts at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Edinburgh Festival, along with return visits to the South Bank, Bridgewater Hall and Wigmore Hall. Future plans include a new Concerto for two pianos by the German composer Detlev Glanert, commissioned for the Duo and premiered, to great critical acclaim, in March 2008.
A performer at many of the European festivals (Bath, City of London, Cheltenham, Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Mecklenburg, Montpelier, Lofoten, Obertsdorf, Oslo, Schwetzinger, Spoleto, Schleswig-Holstein and Verbier), Simon has also been invited to the Open Chamber Music Sessions at Prussia Cove in Cornwall.
In the Summer of 2008 Simon has performed at Vid Djupid Festival (Iceland) and hast toured Australia with the Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto.
Simon is also co-director of the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival held every January.
In addition to radio and television broadcasts in Europe, Australia and Japan he has also recorded for the BIS, Deux-Elles, Hyperion, Harmonia Mundi, Naxos and Signum CD labels. Further recordings are planned for Hyperion and Naxos.