Archie Bonham

Archie Bonham is a British pianist based in London, specialising in chamber music and song repertoire. Since 2024, he has been the Adami Award for Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Royal College of Music, where he is based in the Strings Faculty. In the same year, he was the New Horizons Fellow in Vocal Collaborative Piano at the Aspen Music Festival and School, working in the vocal studios of Renée Fleming, Carol Vaness and Stephen King, and performing widely in art song recitals and chamber music concerts across the festival.

Also in 2024, Archie was a Young Artist at Britten Pears Arts and the Shipston Song Festival, and served as official pianist for the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange — a competitive year-long programme led by Dame Felicity Lott, François Le Roux and Seb Wybrew, culminating in two recitals at Wigmore Hall and a performance at the Salle Cortot in Paris. His work at Britten Pears Arts included a particular focus on French song, mentored by Véronique Gens, Susan Manoff, and Audrey Hyland. He has won pianist prizes at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards at Wigmore Hall (2023) and the Ashburnham English Song Awards (2024), where he also received the prize for Best Duo with mezzo soprano Ellen Pearson, and during his studies at the Royal College of Music was awarded the major prizes for vocal collaboration. He regularly appears in recital series’ across the country with singers and instrumentalists.

In 2026, Archie will join the faculties of the New Virtuosi International Violin Mastercourse in Oxford and the Oxenfoord International Vocal Summer School in St Andrews. Alongside his work at the Royal College of Music and freelance performing, he is Senior Piano Tutor at Gresham’s School in Norfolk. After undergraduate studies at the University of York, he completed a Master’s degree in Solo Piano and an Artist Diploma in Collaborative Piano at the Royal College of Music, studying with Danny Driver, Simon Lepper, Roger Vignoles, Kathron Sturrock. His studies were generously supported by the Needley Family Scholarship and the Viola Tunnard Trust.