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Biography
Heather Slade-Lipkin is an English pianist, harpsichordist and teacher.
Life
Heather Slade-Lipkin was born into a musical family from Hoylake, Wirral, and by the age of six had already begun formal piano lessons. She was soon winning many 1st Prizes at music festivals. She studied under Gordon Green, Clifton Helliwell, Kenneth Gilbert and Huguette Dreyfus.
She served as piano lecturer at RCNM and visiting professor of piano at Chetham's School of Music. She won first prizes at the National Piano Competition and the National Harpsichord Competition, and was a finalist in the Paris International Fortepiano Competition. She appeared as a soloist for the CBSO and the BBC.
Past and present students include Stephen Hough, Stephen Coombs, Leon McCawley, Sophie Yates, Robert Markham, Stephen Gosling, Phillip Moore, Roderick Chadwick, Jason Ridgway, Jonathan Scott, James Willshire, Faith Leadbetter, Tim Horton, Miles Clery-Fox, Anna Markland, Sarah Nicolls, Helen Sherrah-Davies, Jane Ford, Robert Emery, Joy Morin, Julia Hartmann, Nellie Seng, David Moss, Iulia Mocioc, Margaret Roberts, Jacqueline Leveridge, Eleanor Meynell, James May, Iain Clarke, Durness Mackay-Champion, and Anna Michels.
Recordings by Heather Slade-Lipkin include Jean-Philippe Rameau: The Second Book of Pièces de Clavecins and Contrasts with mezzo-soprano Marilena Zlatanou.
Heather Slade-Lipkin is currently a Professor of Piano at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland senior department, and also tutors many nationally and internationally successful junior students on Saturdays.