MELANIE SPANSWICK BIO
MELANIE SPANSWICK
Melanie Spanswick is a pianist, teacher, author, composer, and adjudicator. She studied the piano at the Royal College of Music in London where she won many prizes and graduated with a Master’s degree in Performance Studies.
As a pianist, Melanie has performed and broadcast worldwide, giving recitals as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist at many music festivals and major concert halls. She has made a solo recording at Wigmore Hall (for Opera Omnia), has performed for the Queen Mother and Queen of Denmark, and has also broadcast on Classic FM, BBC Radio, and Swedish and Spanish TV.
As an educator, Melanie has examined for the ABRSM and she adjudicates for the British and International Federation of Festivals, frequently giving master classes, workshops and presentations throughout the U.K. and abroad, most recently in Germany, the USA and the Far East. She has held teaching posts at various institutions, and regularly tutors courses at Jackdaws Music Education Trust, Finchcocks Music and PIANO WEEK in the U.K. She presents workshops for EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association) and also hosts a bilingual piano project near Düsseldorf (Germany) for teachers and students, as well as serving as a faculty member at the Overseas Masters Winter Piano Academy which is held biennially at the Yehudi Menuhin School. She is an Honorary Master Teacher at the Tom Lee Music Academy in Hong Kong. Melanie has adjudicated both nationally and internationally, and has been a jury member at the 2016 Chicago Amateur Piano Competition, the 65th and 70th Hong Kong Schools Association Music Festival, the 2017 Singapore Performing Arts Festival, the Stars of the Albion Grand Prix, and the 2017 Beethoven Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition in London.
As an author, she is published by major publishing houses: Schott, Faber and Alfred. Melanie selected the repertoire for the Faber Music Piano Anthology (Faber Music) and her piano guidebook, So You Want To Play The Piano? (Alfred Music) has received much acclaim. Melanie’s three-book piano course for piano returners, Play it again: PIANO (Schott Music), has been an international success, and Book 4 will be released in 2020.
