Anna Tilbrook
Pianist Anna Tilbrook is in international demand as both an accompanist and a chamber music player. She has also been active as a vocal coach and repetiteur.
A native of England's Hertfordshire region, Tilbrook was trained at York University and later, on scholarship, at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won a host of accompaniment prizes and became an Associate in 2009. She made her debut at Wigmore Hall in 1999 and has since joined a variety of singers and top chamber music groups at festivals and major concert hall appearances.
Tilbrook has worked with an impressive range of singers and instrumentalists, most of them British. These have included Lucy Crowe, with whom she made her debut at Carnegie Hall in New York, Mark Padmore, Iestyn Davies, and many others. In television concerts mounted by the Welsh National Opera, she has performed with the likes of Bryn Terfel, José Carreras, and Angela Gheorghiu. Her most lasting collaboration has been with tenor James Gilchrist, with whom she has explored the 20th century English song repertory and with whom she made her recording debut on the 2005 Linn album Oh Fair to See. Their recording of Ralph Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge was a finalist in the 2008 Gramophone Awards, and they have recorded song cycles by Gerald Finzi, Kenneth Leighton, and Benjamin Britten, as well as earning an Editor's Choice nod from Gramophone for recordings of Schubert's song cycles.
As a chamber player, Tilbrook has worked with the Sacconi, Barbirolli, and Elias String Quartets. As a rehearsal pianist and coach, she has worked with top-flight organizations, including the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Opera. She has also played Baroque continuo and directed a Buxton Festival performance of Telemann's Pimpinone from the harpsichord. Tilbrook's catalog of recordings is large and was augmented in 2018 by a viola version of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Six Studies in English Folksong, performed with violist Philip Dukes, which appeared on the Chandos label. Tilbrook backed soprano Lucy Crowe, another frequent collaborator, on the 2021 Linn recital Longing. She has recorded mostly for Chandos, Linn, and Orchid Classics, but she moved to Rubicon Classics in 2024, accompanying tenor Alessandro Fisher on the flower-themed album A Gardener's World.
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Discography
9 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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A Gardener's World
Alessandro Fisher, Anna Tilbrook
Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released by Rubicon on Feb 23, 2024
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Longing. Lieder by Strauss, Berg, Schoenberg
Classical - Released by Linn Records on Aug 20, 2021
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Britten: My Beloved is Mine
James Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook
Classical - Released by Linn Records on Sep 17, 2012
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The Music of Frederick Laurence
Classical - Released by Orchid Classics on Apr 5, 2024
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Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge
James Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook, Fitzwilliam String Quartet
Classical - Released by Linn Records on Jan 1, 2007
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Schumann: Song Cycles
Anna Tilbrook, James Gilchrist
Classical - Released by Linn Records on Sep 18, 2015
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Solitude
James Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook
Mélodies - Released by Chandos on Jul 1, 2020
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Leighton: Earth, Sweet Earth...(Laudes Terrae) & Britten: Winter Words
James Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook
Classical - Released by Linn Records on Oct 1, 2010
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Schubert: Winterreise (Franz Schubert - Wilhelm Muller)
Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released by Orchid Classics on Sep 26, 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo