Nigel Foster

Name:	Nigel Foster
Location:	London United Kingdom SW19
Contact:	mobile number - 07973 292992 Send Nigel Foster a message

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Nigel Foster is one of Britain’s leading accompanists. He has played for singers including Sergei Leiferkus, Philip Langridge, Yvonne Kenny, Roderick Williams, Ian Partridge, Sarah Walker, Louise Winter, Helen Field, Neil Jenkins, Stephen Varcoe, Jeremy Huw Williams and Jane Manning, instrumentalists including violinist Madeleine Mitchell, and many of Britain’s leading young singers. He is the Founder and Director of The London Song Festival, an annual event that launched in 2007 to promote the classical song repertoire (www.londonsongfestival.org).

Nigel studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His teachers have included Roger Vignoles, Graham Johnson and Iain Burnside.

Nigel performs regularly at major venues including the Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre, St John Smith Square and Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Crush Room) in London and St David's Hall in Cardiff. He has played for Graham Johnson’s ‘Songmakers’ Almanac’ and worked with conductors including John Eliot Gardiner and the late Georg Solti, playing for singers such as Renee Fleming, Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu. He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

Nigel's CD recordings include several discs of songs and anthologies. He features on the soundtrack of the French film 'L'Homme est une Femme comme les Autres', has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM and has appeared on television in several European countries including France, Serbia and Greece.

Nigel performs extensively abroad, having played in most European countries, New Zealand, Japan, Malaysia, Israel, the USA, Canada and South America.