West Wight Arts Association

John Reid read music at Clare College, Cambridge, before taking up a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Dussek. He has also taken lessons in song interpretation with Malcolm Martineau and, privately in Amsterdam, with Rudolf Jansen. His many awards include the 2003 Kathleen Ferrier and Maggie Teyte accompaniment prizes, the 2003 Birmingham Accompanist of the Year (joint first prize), the 2004 Gerald Moore Award and the Queen's Commendation for excellence, presented by the Academy.

John has made a number of significant recital debuts during the course of recent seasons: at Wigmore Hall in May 2004 (with soprano Lucy Crowe); at the Purcell Room (as a 2004 Park Lane Group Young Artist); in Berlin and at the Mecklenburg Festival (with flautist Adam Walker) and in Switzerland, Italy and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (with trumpeter Alison Balsom). He has partnered distinguished singers Joan Rodgers and Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, flautist William Bennett, cellist Alexander Baillie and violinist Jennifer Pike and, together with his regular duo partner, violinist Thomas Gould, he has performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, St. George's Brandon Hill, Purcell Room and in festivals across the UK. He is a regular member of the Aurora Orchestra, with whom he has appeared at the Aldeburgh Festival, and he joined the contemporary music ensemble Radius for debuts at Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Centre during 2007.

John is an alumnus of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Music Song Circle, whose debut disc ('Songs of Spring') was released to critical acclaim. Other projects include first recordings of music by Charles Camilleri (Divine Art), Rhian Samuel (Deux-Elles), Clifford Benson (Landor Records) and, most recently, York Bowen (music for two pianos, with Michael Dussek, on Dutton Epoch).

John was recently elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.