Heather Slade-Lipkin
Heather Slade-Lipkin (9 March 1947 – 16 October 2017) was an English pianist, harpsichordist and teacher.
Biography[edit]
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Slade-Lipkin was born into a musical family from Hoylake, Wirral. She began formal piano lessons before the age of six and made her concerto debut at the age of twelve. She studied with Gordon Green[1] and Clifton Helliwell at the Royal Northern College of Music, and later in Paris with Kenneth Gilbert and Huguette Dreyfus.
Slade-Lipkin taught piano at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and was a 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 with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.[2]
Notable students include:
- Stephen Hough[3]
- Stephen Coombs[4]
- Leon McCawley[5]
- Sophie Yates[6]
- Robert Markham[7]
- Stephen Gosling[8]
- Phillip Moore[9]
- Roderick Chadwick[10]
- Jason Ridgway[11]
- Jonathan Scott[12]
- James Willshire[13]
- Tim Horton[14]
- Anna Markland[15]
- Sarah Nicolls[16]
- Joy-Helen Morin[17]
- Nellie Seng[18]
- Anna Michels[19]
Recordings by Heather Slade-Lipkin include Jean-Philippe Rameau: The Second Book of Pièces de Clavecins[20] and Contrasts with mezzo-soprano Marilena Zlatanou.[21]
Slade-Lipkin died on 16 October 2017,[2] aged 70, from metastatic pancreatic cancer. She is interred at the Manchester Southern Cemetery.
References[edit]
- ^ Benser, Caroline Cepin (2012). At the piano : interviews with 21st-century pianists. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8173-0. OCLC 759606982.
- ^ a b "Death of an influential keyboard teacher". Slipped Disc. 24 October 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ^ "Stephen Hough biography". Naxos. 25 June 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
- ^ "Stephen Coombs biography". Hyperion. 16 August 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ^ "Leon McCawley". Leon McCawley. Archived from the original on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
- ^ "Sophie Yates". Sophie Yates. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
- ^ Birmingham Conservatoire: Robert Markham biography
- ^ "Stephen Gosling biography". Naxos. 25 June 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
- ^ "Phillip Moore". Philipmoorepianist.co.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
- ^ "Royal Academy of Music: Roderick Chadwick biography". Ram.ac.uk. 20 July 1976. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
- ^ "Jason Ridgway biography". Gary Parkes Music. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ^ "Jonathan Scott". Jonathan Scott. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
- ^ "James Willshire". James Willshire. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
- ^ "Tim Horton biography". Kings Place. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
- ^ "BBC Young Musician: Anna Markland biography". Bach Cantatas. 16 August 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ^ "Sarah Nicolls biography". Brunel. 28 September 2011. Archived from the original on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
- ^ "Redon Conservatoire: Joy-Helen Morin" (in French). Cc-pays-redon.fr. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ^ CUNY Doctoral Piano Listing: Nellie Seng
- ^ "Anna Michels". St Mary's Music School. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ^ Bruche Recordings: CBR102
- ^ Contrast, antithesis. OCLC 31431622. Retrieved 14 April 2022 – via WorldCat.org.
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