Elizabeth Rossiter

Biography

Pianist Elizabeth Rossiter enjoys a busy performing career primarily as a song accompanist and chamber musician, and is a Samling Scholar, a Park Lane Group and a Britten-Pears Young Artist, and a Yeoman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.  

Elizabeth graduated from the Guildhall School with Distinction, where she was supported by many scholarships and awards, and was Accompaniment Fellow. She completed her training as an Associate Trainee at the National Opera Studio, and has since given song and chamber music recitals at Wigmore Hall, The Barbican, Queen Elizabeth and Bridgewater Halls, The Sage Gateshead, Kings Place, the Purcell Room, The Forge, the Crush Room of the Royal Opera House. She has broadcast many times on BBC Radio 3, on In Tune, from the Royal Albert Hall in the Proms, on BBC2, Granada TV and Channel 4.

Competition successes include the Pianists’ Prize at the Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition, the Concordia Serena Nevill Prize and the Queen Mary II Accompaniment Prize at the Guildhall School. She is also the official accompanist of the National Mozart Singing Competition.  

Elizabeth’s work as a répétiteur has taken her to Opera Holland Park, the Grimebourne Festival and Grange Park Opera, amongst others. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said of her “from the beginning a remarkable musical talent and sensitive feel for the music showed clearly from Elizabeth Rossiter’s recital…”

In addition to her performing career, Elizabeth very much enjoys her teaching at the Guildhall School, where she also works as a staff accompanist.