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London Handel Competition

Anna won the accompaniment prize in the 2009 London Handel Competition on Friday 3rd April 2009.


CD Releases

Britten’s Winter Words with James Gilchrist for Linn.

Coming soon – Mendelssohn Lieder with Lucy Crowe for Linn.


Coming up

Friday 21st Oct 2011
Carnegie Hall
New York, USA

Lucy Crowe (soprano) and Anna Tilbrook (piano)


Anna Tilbrook…

Anna Tilbrook - portrait… is a distinguished pianist and accompanist. She has collaborated with many leading singers and instrumentalists including James Gilchrist, Lucy Crowe, Sarah Tynan, Yvonne Howard, Janis Kelly, Willard White, Mark Padmore, Stephan Loges, Chris Maltman, Ian Bostridge, Christine Rice, Iestyn Davies, Gillian Keith, Nicholas Daniel, Natalie Clein, Priya Mitchell, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Gemma Rosefield, Adrian Brendel, Harriet Mackenzie and Eleanor Fagg.

Her recent performances have taken her to some of the leading festivals and concert halls in Britain and abroad, including King’s Place in London, the Oxford Lieder Festival, the Leicester International Music Festival, Dartington and the Anima Mundi Festival in Pisa. Her disc of Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge, with James Gilchrist and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet was nominated for the 2008 Gramophone Record of the Year, and her most recent disc, of Schubert’s Die Schone Mullerin, also with James Gilchrist, was Editor’s Choice in Gramophone, November 2009.

“Anna Tilbrook is an outstanding accompanist: discreet when necessary, but also able to make the simplest phrase or chordal progression tell without a touch of exaggeration.” (BBC Music Magazine).

“Superb” (Michael Kennedy, Sunday Telegraph).

“Anna Tilbrook is excellent” (John Steane, Gramophone).