Nick Salwey

Professional
Membership

Location:

Winchester
United Kingdom SO23

Contact:

0771 007 3959

Additional Info:

Piano accompanist for recitals, masterclasses and diploma exams.
'Nick Salwey provides sensitive and satisfying piano accompaniments' (Gramophone, August 2026)
MA, MSc, DPhil, ARCM, LGSM

Nick graduated from Oxford with a 1st in Music, later gaining his doctorate there, and he was 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. Nick also regularly plays for diploma exams, with over 220 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 June 2026 a CD recording of Herbert Howells' upper-voices partsongs was released on SOMM gaining critical acclaim: Gramophone - 'This delightful cornucopia reveals a hitherto largely neglected aspect of Howells' prolific output ... Nick Salwey provides sensitive and satisfying piano accompaniments, whether luxuriating in poetic meditations ... or the bouncy elan of vigorous songs', BBC Music Magazine - 'The eight-woman Mira Ensemble have got off to a flying start with this debut recording ... pianist Nick Salwey accompanies with equal agility', Musicweb - 'Accompanist Nick Salwey is excellent. Some of the piano parts are quite simple and discreet, others demand considerable dexterity and clarity. Salwey finds a perfect balance between accompanying and musically contributing', British Music Society 'A captivating and heart-easing disc ... accompanied with finesse by Nick Salwey'.

Instruments

Piano

Specialisms

Instrumental Accompaniment, Vocal Accompaniment

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