Sholto Kynoch
Sholto Kynoch is in demand as a song accompanist and chamber musician, regularly performing with many outstanding singers and instrumentalists.
He is the founder and director of the Oxford Lieder Festival, where he has accompanied more than fifty song recitals over the past eight years, working with singers including Kate Royal, Mark Stone, Jonathan Lemalu and Henry Herford. In the 2008 Lieder Festival he was privileged to play for tenor Ian Partridge’s “farewell” recital.
Other recent highlights have included performances at Wigmore Hall (with violinist Kaoru Yamada), the Berliner Konzerthaus (with soprano Olja Dakic), the Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore (with violinist Tee Khoon Tang), the St Endellion Festival, the Chichester Festivities, Cambridge Summer Music, the Perth Festival, the Brasov International Chamber Music Festival in Romania, the Chelsea Schubert Festival (with the Doric String Quartet) and a series of recitals in Sweden (with violist Ylvali Zilliacus).
Sholto is the pianist of the Phoenix Piano Trio, with whom he performed the complete Beethoven trios in 2010. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at Bangor Univeristy.
Sholto read Music at Worcester College, Oxford, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His teachers have included Michael Dussek, Graham Johnson, Malcolm Martineau, Ronan O’Hora and Vanessa Latarche.