EDWARD PICTON-TURBERVILL is a prize-winning pianist and composer, recently selected as both a Britten Pears Young Artist 2024-25 and a 2024 City Music Foundation Artist. He was a Leeds Lieder Young Artist in 2023 and has performed alongside internationally renowned singers including Ben Appl, Laurence Kilsby, Ben Johnson and Carolyn Sampson. He has appeared regularly at the Wigmore Hall and on BBC Radio 3, and in masterclasses with leading figures such as Anne Sofie von Otter, Roger Vignoles and Iain Burnside. He recently founded Pipit to bring song recitals into private homes. Edward’s first large-scale composition, a set of Lamentations, will be premiered at Smith Square Hall on 15 April 2025, and the debut album of his own compositions will be released on Delphian Records later the same year.

Edward studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he graduated with Distinction in Piano Accompaniment and the Concert Recital Diploma for exceptional performance. This followed a year at the University of Heidelberg and an MPhil in Environmental Policy at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a First in Music and was Organ Scholar, performing with its world-class choir. Edward’s first book, Talking Through Trees, was published in 2017 by the Old Stile Press.

Edward is committed to music education and outreach: from 2018-2021, he was Head of Music at Atlantic College, where he led a major refurbishment of the music buildings and steered the department through the pandemic. He taught for many years on the Rodolfus Foundation Choral Courses, and now works as organist at St John the Divine, Kennington, assisting with the church’s renowned youth programme.