Libby Burgess

Pianist Libby Burgess is well-known on concert stages across Britain, playing regularly as song specialist and chamber musician in the country’s major halls and festivals, and on Radio 3. Her 2025 partners include Benjamin Appl, Ashley Riches, Mark Padmore, Marcus Farnsworth, Jonathan Aasgaard, Sophie Rosa, Julian Bliss and Matilda Lloyd, and she performs regularly with the BBC Singers.

Equally admired for her programming, Libby is the founding Artistic Director of New Paths Music, where she has curated fifteen festivals of song, chamber music and community outreach in the Yorkshire town of Beverley.

Over the last few years Libby has been undertaking a nationwide Bach marathon, performing Bach’s entire Well-Tempered Clavier across the country in venues ranging from cathedrals to gardens. To date the project has raised over £32,000 for Help Musicians, Live Music Now, Future Talent and Youth Music.

Libby is a vocal coach at the Royal Academy of Music and was formerly Head of Keyboard at Eton College. A regular guest at Chetham’s School of Music, National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, and Young Sounds, she loves working in contexts that seek to overcome barriers and share the power of music with everyone. Libby is an avid reader, an enthusiastic wine-drinker, a terrible baker, and has a borderline unhealthy obsession with the River Thames.

Updated September 2025