Robert Markham

Acclaimed as a performer of ‘astonishing lucidity and coherence’ (Musical Opinion) and ‘true musicianship’ (International Piano), British pianist Robert Markham was a finalist at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. While still a teenager, he won the piano class of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition, and went on to give a highly acclaimed debut recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York.

Markham’s concert activity spans three continents, and he has appeared at London’s Wigmore Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall and New York’s Alice Tully Hall. He has performed at the Felicja Blumental International Music Festival in Israel, the Oficina de Música in Brazil and Three Choirs Festival in the UK. Markham regularly appears as a concerto soloist in the UK and abroad, and has performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, London Mozart Players and Israel Chamber Orchestra. He regularly collaborates, as a chamber musician, with members of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Markham studied with Heather Slade-Lipkin at Chetham’s School of Music and Oxana Yablonskaya at The Juilliard School, from where he holds a Doctorate. He currently serves as senior tutor in solo and collaborative piano at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where, as a staff researcher, he has conducted research into the life and works of Franz Xaver Mozart.