Edward Campbell-Rowntree

Edward Campbell-Rowntree is a pianist, writer, and educator originally from the north-east of England. After studying at King’s College London (BMus) and the University of Oxford (MSt), he joined the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (MMus, PGDip) where he developed a strong commitment to vocal repertoire, becoming a member of the RNCM Songsters and winning first prize in the inaugural Williams-Howard Memorial Competition. Alongside duo partner Georgie Malcolm, Edward was a Leeds Lieder Young Artist in 2023 and contestant in the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition of 2024.

As well as his work as a pianist, Edward is a PhD candidate in Musicology at Girton College, Cambridge, supported by a Vice-Chancellor’s & Rosalie Crawford Girton Studentship. Supervised by Professor Bettina Varwig, his research focuses on harpsichord music and culture in seventeenth-century France, particularly in Paris and Versailles. He is also active as a harpsichordist and continuo player, and a founding member of Les Acolytes, an early music ensemble specialising in French music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.