Nick Salwey

Professional
Membership

Location:

Winchester
United Kingdom SO23

Contact:

0771 007 3959

Additional Info:

MA, MSc, DPhil, ARCM, LGSM
Piano accompanist for recitals, masterclasses and diploma exams.
Nick graduated from Oxford with a 1st in Music, later gaining his doctorate there, and he has been Head of Piano at Winchester College from 2005 to 2025, having previously taught at Eton College, Wycombe Abbey and Oxford University. He continues to teach and accompany for concerts and exams at Winchester College and also to accompany for concerts and exams at St Swithun's School Winchester. His pupils have performed concertos by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Saint-Saens, Shostakovich & Gershwin. Nick has performed live on BBC Radio 3, ITV, Channel 4 and Classic FM, has reviewed for The Independent, New York Observer, Classical Piano and International Record Review, and he has published articles in academic journals and books in the UK and Austria. He runs the lunchtime recital series in Winchester Cathedral, with some thirty concerts each year offering performance opportunities particularly for young local musicians, and Nick also regularly plays for diploma exams, with over 200 now taught and/or accompanied (from ARSM, dip. ABRSM, LRSM, FRSM, ATCL, AMusTCL, to LTCL & FTCL). As an accompanist, Nick’s repertoire is extensive, e.g. for the cello, five Beethoven sonatas, two Brahms, and sonatas by Barber, Bridge, Britten, Chopin, Debussy, Dyson, Franck, Grieg, Hurlstone, Kodaly, Martinu, Mendelssohn, Myaskovsky, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Smyth and Strauss, and for the violin, ten Beethoven sonatas, three Brahms, and sonatas by Bach, Berkeley, Debussy, Elgar, Franck, Fuchs, Grieg, Lekeu, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Porter, Prokofiev, Schumann & Strauss, and with singers his repertoire includes song cycles by Argento, Barber, Beethoven, Britten, Butterworth, Copland, Debussy, Finzi, Gurney, Korngold, Mahler, Ravel, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Vaughan Williams and Wagner. In July 2025 Nick accompanied for a CD recording of Herbert Howells' upper-voices partsongs, for release on SOMM later this year.

Instruments

Piano

Specialisms

Instrumental Accompaniment, Vocal Accompaniment

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