Anna Tilbrook

Anna has been a regular artist at all the major concert halls and festivals since her debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1999 and frequently broadcasts for Radio 3.

She has collaborated with many leading singers and instrumentalists including Lucy Crowe, James Gilchrist, Ian Bostridge, Mary Bevan, Sophie Bevan, Barbara Hannigan, Kitty Whately, Sir John Tomlinson, Sir Willard White, Alessandro Fisher, Roderick Williams, Stephane Degout. Matthew Rose, Ashley Riches, Nicholas Daniel, Michael Collins, Natalie Clein, Philip Dukes, Jack Liebeck, Pavel Šporcl, Emily Sun, Louisa Tuck, Sol Gabetta, Guy Johnston, Laura van der Heijden, Jess Gilliam, Ben Goldscheider and the Fitzwilliam, Carducci, Sacconi, Elias, Navarra and Barbirolli string quartets. She has also accompanied José Carreras, Angela Gheorghiu and Bryn Terfel in televised concerts.

Performance highlights include recitals at Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall New York, Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, deSingel Antwerp, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Athénée Paris, Opera National du Rhin, Anima Mundi Pisa, NOSPR Katowice, Wrocław Cantans, appearances at the Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Oxford Song, Leeds Song, Hay, Jersey, West Cork, Midtåsen (Norway), Sanguine (Australia) and Savannah (US) Music festivals. She also regularly broadcasts and curates series of concerts for BBC Radio 3 and many festivals. 

In 2022 Anna and James Gilchrist celebrated 25 years as a duo partnership. They have made a series of acclaimed recordings of English song for Linn and Chandos, the Schubert song cycles for Orchid, Schumann’s cycles, the songs and chamber music of Vaughan Williams with Philip Dukes, “Solitude”, settings of Purcell, Schubert, Barber and a cycle written for James and Anna by Jonathan Dove, Under Alter’d Skies and most recently a disc of songs by Roger Quilter. 

In August 2021 Lucy Crowe and Anna marked 20 years of working together by releasing their disc “Longing” featuring Lieder by Strauss, Berg and Schoenberg on the Linn label. She has also made a number of recordings with other artists including Jack Liebeck, Ashley Riches, Alessandro Fisher and Kitty Whately. Anna has also recorded a two piano arrangement of the Verdi Requiem with the Bach Choir.

Anna is Professor of Ensemble piano at the Royal Academy of Music where she was elected a Fellow in May 2025. She is regularly invited to give masterclasses at festivals, conservatoires and universities throughout the UK and abroad and she also teaches at the University of Oxford. Anna has recently been on the jury for Cardiff Singer of the World and the Kathleen Ferrier competition. 

Anna is committed to using music as a way to help people and is pleased to have given over 1000 interactive concerts for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia. She regularly works with the Prison Choir project and also with disadvantaged children providing musical opportunities and support. Anna sits on the music committee for the Lord’s Taverners charity. 

If not sitting at the piano, Anna can normally be found watching cricket (she is a member of the MCC), playing tennis, having a gin and tonic or eating a curry!