Anthony Williams MMus GRSM(Hons) LRAM ARAM

Concert pianist, writer, lecturer, examiner and adjudicator, Anthony Williams studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London and then at Reading University.

Following international competition success, he embarked on a career as a concert pianist and alongside this quickly established an international reputation as a piano teacher and a passionate educator of pianistic musicianship at all ages and levels, giving piano masterclasses, public lecture-recitals and seminars on performance and the art of teaching.

Anthony has given talks on piano performance for Radio 3 and is author and editor of various publications including The Best of Grade and Fingerprints (Faber), Teaching Notes (ABRSM) and the highly acclaimed Piano Teacher’s Survival Guide (Faber).

He is Chairman of EPTA Europe, editor of Piano Journal Magazine, an ABRSM examiner (jazz and classical), and a member of the ABRSM examiner training and review team. For over 30 years he combined his freelance career with a full-time position at Radley College, Oxfordshire as Head of Keyboard and Instrumental Music where he established the unique biennial Radley Piano Extravaganza, a major concert of bespoke arrangements and transcriptions for up to 21 pianists at 7 grand pianos.