Katharine Durran

Katharine Durran is a solo pianist, chamber musician, song accompanist, recording artist and educator.

She read Music at the University of Cambridge, before studying at the Royal College of Music where her teachers included Kendall Taylor and Geoffrey Parsons.

Her debut solo album was a much-praised recording of the complete Toccatas of J.S.Bach, which led to her featuring in three Piano Magazine symposiums, discussing J.S. Bach, British piano music and issues relating to women pianists of today.

For ten years she was the pianist of the award-winning and pioneering ensemble Tapestry. Her groundbreaking enterprise with Alison Smart of the BBC Singers, New French Song, has involved working with thirty of Britain’s leading composers, and has resulted in the creation of a completely new song recital repertoire for the 21st century.

Tracks from her CD recordings are frequently featured on BBC Radio 3 and she has performed new works for solo piano and for ensemble live on radio and television, as well as discussing the role of song accompanist in today’s musical society.

Katharine also conducts choirs, teaches singing and runs choral singing groups for all ages.

She has taught piano all her working life, first in London as Head of Keyboard at Camden School, then at the RNCM in Manchester and now here in Glasgow.