Carole Presland

Carole Presland has performed throughout Europe, the Far East and the USA. In the UK she has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre, King's Place and at international festivals including Aldeburgh and Bath. She has broadcast regularly for BBC Radio 3 and frequently abroad for Bayerischer Rundfunk, Radio France, RAI Italian Television and WFMT in the USA as well as various other national networks. She has recorded CDs for labels such as Pavane, Meridian and EMI Classics to wide critical acclaim, with duo performances selected for the Evening Standard's Critic's Choice and on BBC Radio 3s Building a Library.

Passionate about Chamber Music, Carole has collaborated with many distinguished artists including Alexander Baillie, Colin Carr, Robert Cohen, Frans Helmerson, Ralph Kirshbaum, Nobuko Imai, Anthony Marwood, Alexander Melnikov, Christoph Richter, Sylvia Rosenberg, Alexander Rudin and the Chilingirian, Endellion, Vanbrugh, Belcea and Heath String Quartets.

A dedicated teacher, Carole was appointed a piano professor at the Royal Northern College of Music in 1996. In 2008 she was invited to join the keyboard faculty of the Royal Academy of Music, where they recently elected her an HonARAM. Carole is frequently invited to adjudicate, examine and give master classes for leading conservatoires, specialist music schools and for the European Piano Teachers Association. For several years she was on the faculty at the Yehudi Menuhin School and The Purcell School and she has been Tutor and Artist in Residence at ‘Lake District Summer Music’ international festival and summer school for almost thrity years. She was appointed Senior Co-ordinator of Keyboard Chamber Music at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in September 2013.

Carole studied with Renna Kellaway on the Joint Course at the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Manchester. Generous postgraduate scholarships enabled her to work in classes with Andras Schiff at the International Musicians’ Seminar, Prussia Cove and with Gyorgy Sebok in Amsterdam.