Dylan Perez

Pianist Dylan Perez is a rising figure as an accompanist and recitalist, with top-notch training in both his countries of residence and beyond. He is also active as a chamber musician and as a vocal coach. Perez was born in 1990 in Holland, Michigan, U.S.A. He has also used the name Dylan Bewley-Perez. Even before leaving high school, he made an impact across West Michigan, winning the Grand Rapids Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition and the Norbert Mueller Concerto Competition. In 2007 and 2008, he took top prizes in the Senior Piano Division at the Michigan Music Teachers' Association State Finals, and he placed first in Grand Valley State University's 20th/21st Century Music Competition in 2008. Perez attended the University of Michigan, earning bachelor's and master's degrees while studying piano with Louis Nagel and accompaniment with Martin Katz. After completing his master's in 2014, Perez moved to London and enrolled at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, earning a master's degree in 2016 and an artist's diploma in 2018. His teachers in piano accompaniment there were Pamela Lidiard and Julius Drake, and he served as accompanist in the studio of Janice Chapman. Perez earned several more prizes in Britain, including the Gerald Moore Prize for accompanists and the Accompanist's Prize at the Bampton Young Singers Competition. In 2019, Perez made his debut appearance at London's Wigmore Hall, backing mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska. He has appeared at a variety of top London venues, including the Barbican, St. Martin in the Fields, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Perez participated in the masterclass series The Song Continues with Marilyn Horne, Jessye Norman, and Dalton Baldwin, and later, he was invited to become the pianist for the classes' residency in Paris. He has also taken master classes from Renée Fleming, Dame Felicity Lott, and Roger Vignoles, among others. In London, he founded his own vocal recital series, re-sung, and in 2019-2020, he was the Lord and Lady Lurgan Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Royal College of Music. Perez made his recording debut in 2021 on an album of Brahms' Liebeslieder-Walzer, Opp. 52 and 65. The following year, he married tenor Nicky Spence and was the pianist on the Resonus Classics release Barber: The Complete Songs, backing various artists.
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