Alfred Fardell

Alfred Fardell is a pianist based in London specialising in song and chamber music. In 2026, he is an Oxford Song Young Artist and the Viola Tunnard Scholar as a Britten Pears Young Artist. He is also a Samling Artist.

Alfred recently graduated with distinction from the Ensemble Piano course at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with James Baillieu and Anna Tilbrook. He held the Michael Gilsenan Award and was awarded the Bicentenary and Evelyn German Prizes. His studies were supported by the Countess of Munster Trust. Before joining the Academy, Alfred gained a first class degree in Music from St Peter’s College, Oxford, winning the Gibbs Prize for his results in finals.

Performance highlights have included appearances at Wigmore Hall and Leeds Song for the Royal Academy of Music’s Song Circle, a recital of Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Ivor Gurney at the Holywell Music Room, Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes in the Long Room at Lord’s, and the world premiere of Songs of Experience by Piers Connor Kennedy.

Competition success has included winning the pianist prize of the inaugural Rebecca Clarke Song Competition, the Dorothy Richardson English Song Prize, the Davison Young Musicians’ Foundation Recital Prize, and all the available prizes for piano accompaniment at the Academy.