ABOUT HARRY
Harry Rylance is an acclaimed and highly versatile pianist. As a soloist, chamber musician, accompanist, and répétiteur, he has performed in some of the world’s most prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Grand Hall of Budapest, Glyndebourne Opera House, the London Coliseum, the Seoul Arts Centre, the Toronto Glenn Gould Concert Hall, and at international music festivals including Aspen, Heidelberg, Dartington and Petworth.
He has featured in live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and “From The Top,” America’s leading classical music radio programme. He has performed with orchestras and ensembles including the London Sinfonietta, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Liszt Academy Symphony Orchestra, the Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra, the Nash Ensemble, the Royal Manson Ensemble. In 2019, at the UK Foreign Office, he gave a solo performance to an audience of international dignitaries including five former British Prime Ministers.
To commemorate the 140th Anniversary of UK-Korea Diplomatic Relations in 2023, Harry performed with soprano Haegee Lee in Hampton Court Palace and at a concert attended by the South Korean President during his State Visit to the UK.
ABOUT HARRY
Harry Rylance is an acclaimed and highly versatile pianist. As a soloist, chamber musician, accompanist, and répétiteur, he has performed in some of the world’s most prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Grand Hall of Budapest, Glyndebourne Opera House, the London Coliseum, the Seoul Arts Centre, the Toronto Glenn Gould Concert Hall, and at international music festivals including Aspen, Heidelberg, Dartington and Petworth.
He has featured in live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and “From The Top,” America’s leading classical music radio programme. He has performed with orchestras and ensembles including the London Sinfonietta, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Liszt Academy Symphony Orchestra, the Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra, the Nash Ensemble, the Royal Manson Ensemble. In 2019, at the UK Foreign Office, he gave a solo performance to an audience of international dignitaries including five former British Prime Ministers.
To commemorate the 140th Anniversary of UK-Korea Diplomatic Relations in 2023, Harry performed with soprano Haegee Lee in Hampton Court Palace and at a concert attended by the South Korean President during his State Visit to the UK.
"He has innate musicality and natural artistry"
Zoltán Kocsis
"From the opening notes of the first movement, it was obvious that a true artist and splendid pianist was at work. I cannot recall a finer, more revealing and rewarding performance of Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Concerto - and I have heard scores of them."
William Dollard, Boston Civic Symphony Concert Review
OPERA AND SONG…
In addition to his solo work, Harry is also in demand as a répétiteur and as a song pianist. Since 2022 he has worked on the music staff at Glyndebourne. Recent highlights include working on Melly Still’s production of Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers and Barrie Kosky’s production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, both conducted by Robin Ticciati. In 2025 he will be working on Glyndebourne’s productions of Saul, Kát’a Kabanová, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, conducted by Jonathan Cohen, Robin Ticciati, and Bertie Baigent, respectively.
As a song pianist, he won the 2023 Kathleen Ferrier Accompanist Prize and the Royal Academy of Music Vivian Langrish Accompanist Prize, both awarded after performances at Wigmore Hall. He works extensively with singers in the UK and across Europe including Liv Redpath (soprano), Cassandra Wright (soprano), Vitor Bispo (baritone) and with singers in top opera studios such as the Royal Opera House Jette Parker Programme and the Bayerische Staatsoper Opera Studio. In 2024 he played for Cassandra Wright’s debut album titled “In the Twilight” which was released by Linn Records.
Harry is a Samling Artist and has also regularly worked as a pianist for the Internationale Meistersinger Akadamie in Germany.
“A sensuous, evocative recital disc… Together with sensitive piano accompanist Harry Rylance, they particularly relish such songs as Marx’s Nocturne, with a rippling piano part and impassioned vocal line”
Will Yeoman, Limelight Magazine Review (In the Twilight, Cassandra Wright and Harry Rylance)
CHAMBER MUSIC
Harry is also active in several chamber groups. Currently, he is a member of Trio Arisonto (Annemarie Federle, horn and Ezo Sarici, violin) with whom he recently premiered his own horn trio arrangements of Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture and Trevor Morrison’s Soay. Trio Arisonto are Tunnell Trust award winners and recently gave a concert tour in Scotland. Other chamber music highlights include being a Chamber Music Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music with Trio Mazzolini (Jack Greed, violin and Yurie Lee, cello), with whom he performed a live broadcast on CBC Radio at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. With trumpeter Lucy Humphris, Harry released a CD titled “Obscurus” featuring works by Respighi, Janacek, and Messiaen.
TRIO ARISONTO
Trio Arisonto is a London-based horn trio made up of violinist Ezo Sarici, horn player Annemarie Federle, and pianist Harry Rylance, all of whom met during their studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Since their formation in late 2021, the trio have performed in venues across the UK such as the Helmsley Arts Centre, Rhyl Music Club, Stapleford Granary Arts Centre, Hampstead Garden Suburb Concert Series, and at the Royal Academy of Music. They are winners of the 2023 Tunnell Trust Awards Scheme.
“Thrilling to watch and the audience was rapt… The clever interplay of instruments was appreciated and was performed with clarity and expertise. It was a splendidly confident performance and the three musicians were a close ensemble”
Helen Simpson, Nicholas Yonge Society Review (Trio Arisonto)
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Beyond his dedication to the core canon, Harry is also passionate about working with composers. British composer Daniel Kidane, whose music opened the 2019 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, selected Harry to premiere his solo piano work, "Carillon". Other composers whose works have been premiered by Harry include Augusta Read Thomas, Freya Waley-Cohen, Philip Cashian, and Keting Sun, whose piece With Thee was dedicated to him. He has also recently worked with film composer Garry Judd to record a collection of his solo piano works, which are all being released on multiple streaming platforms.
Harry is also collaborating with artists, actors and writers in theatre, film, dance, poetry and the visual arts. He recently combined performances of works by Bartók and Ligeti with live feedback video animations created by the University of Arts London in a performance at the Royal Academy of Music Summer Piano Festival.
"...performing Liszt’s transcription of Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture, Rylance did a splendid job, thunderous but also sensitive to fine and subtle details."
Dr Chang Tou Liang, Pianofortephilia Review
EDUCATION
Harry graduated with First Class Honours (BMus and MA) from the Royal Academy of Music and received a Diploma (DipRAM) for the highest mark in the 2020 postgraduate piano final recitals. He was also presented with the Musician’s Company Silver Medal, a prestigious award recognising the most distinguished students of the Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music. During 2020-2022, he was appointed as a Royal Academy Opera Répétiteur Fellow, as well as a Chamber Music Fellow. In 2023, Harry was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
While at the Academy, Harry studied under Dame Myra Hess Chair of Piano, Professor Joanna MacGregor CBE. In earlier years, he was tutored by the late Zoltán Kocsis, and by Péter Nagy and Sergey Schepkin. He has also performed in masterclasses with Stephen Hough, Steven Osborne, Jenö Jandó, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Hampson, Brigitte Fassbaender, Adrian Brendel, and Nicola Benedetti.
Outside of music, Harry is a passionate fan of Liverpool FC.