Australian pianist Krystal Tunnicliffe enjoys a varied career as a collaborative pianist and music educator. She works in both the Senior and Junior departments of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and is a Britten-Pears Young Artist, Ryedale Festival Young Artist, and an Oxford Lieder Young Artist. With duo partner Siân Dicker, she has performed at the Oxford Lieder Festival, LIFE Victoria Festival (Barcelona), the International Lied Festival (Zeist), the Aldeburgh Festival, the Ryedale Festival, and opened St John’s Smith Square’s 2020 Autumn Season.
Other recent performance highlights include recitals in London, Cornwall, Ireland, Wales, Belgium, Italy and France, including recitals at Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, St-Martin-in-the-Fields, LSO St Luke’s, and on BBC Radio 3. In 2019, she won the prize for the best accompanist in the heats at Melbourne National Liederfest, and with Harriet Burns she was a finalist at the Maureen Lehane Awards.
Krystal completed Bachelor and Masters degrees (with distinction) from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Guildhall School respectively, before undertaking a Junior Fellowship at the Guildhall School. She is also a graduate of the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien.
