Simon Young, Professor of Piano, Trinity College of Music

Simon Young studied the piano at Trinity College of Music in London and at the Paris Conservatoire. His teachers have included Nadia Boulanger, Artur Rubinstein, Yvonne Lefebure, Cyril Smith, Irene Kohler and Alfred Kitchin. He has broadcast internationally and worked in the theatre with Edith Evans, Harold Pinter, Vivien Merchant and Edith McArthur. The two-piano duo he created in 1970 with the late Antony Lindsay produced works written for them by Peter Racine Fricker, Alun Hoddinott, Humphrey Searle and Edward Cowie. Simon Young has created a new two-piano duo with Leigh O’Hara and his return to solo piano performing includes concerto appearances and recitals.

In 1980 Simon Young joined the staff of Trinity College of Music where he is now Emeritus Fellow and Professor of Piano having for 10 years been Assistant Principal in charge of External Relations. He is a Director of the Greenwich Theatre Board and Vice Chairman of the International Guitar Foundation. He is also an active member of the Association of European Conservatoires, runs a number of EU projects, adjudicates at international festivals and competitions and gives master-classes at Conservatoires and summer schools world wide including the Dartington International Summer School. In 2005 he was appointed adjudicator to the 57th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival and External Examiner to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
During 2005 he has given master classes and recitals in Athens, Tilburg (Holland) Trieste, Zagreb, Malta, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and in October he will give a master class and performances in Tokyo.

In 2005 Prof. Young joined Music Chamber, Hong Kong, as Principal Adviser in Piano and Musicianship as well as becoming Principal of the Danny Wong Music Scholarship Programme. He will be responsible for developing curricula and a Piano Master Series of pieces for both primary and secondary levels.