Simon Lepper
Simon Lepper was born in Kent and educated at King's College
Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he studied
with Michael Dussek. He obtained a DipRAM, the highest award for
postgraduate study, and was subsequently awarded the Hodgson
Fellowship. Whilst a student he won all the major awards for piano
accompaniment including the Gerald Moore Award and the accompanist
prizes in the Kathleen Ferrier and Royal Overseas League
Competition. He became an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music
in 2005 and currently teaches chamber music and song accompaniment
at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Simon's recent and future performances with singers include
recitals with Cora Burggraaf, Nicole Cabell, Karen Cargill, Allan
Clayton, Ronan Collett, Lucy Crowe, Gillian Keith, Gweneth-Ann
Jeffers, Andrew Kennedy, Sally Matthews, Robert Murray, Mark
Padmore, Felicity Palmer, Joan Rodgers, Kate Royal, James
Rutherford, Bryn Terfel, Adrian Thompson, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth
Watts and Roderick Williams. He has also partnered many
instrumentalists including clarinettists Julian Bliss and Jorg
Widmann, violinists Renaud Capucon, Chloe Hanslip, Alexander
Sitkovetsky and Carolin Widmann and cellists Daniel Muller-Schott
and Gemma Rosefield.
Simon is frequently heard on BBC Radio 3. Broadcasts have
included recitals live from the Wigmore Hall with Andrew Kennedy,
Sally Matthews, James Rutherford and Ailish Tynan, and studio
recordings with Karen Cargill, Robert Murray and Hyunah Yu.
Simon has recorded a CD of Debussy songs with the soprano
Gillian Keith on the Deux-Elles label and a disc of Warlock songs
with Andrew Kennedy for Landor Records. He has also recorded a CD
with violinist Carolin Widmann of works by Feldman, Zimmerman,
Xenakis and Schoenberg for ECM Records.