Rhodri Clarke

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Pianist Rhodri Clarke graduated with first-class honours from the Royal College Of Music, London in 2004.

He has lived in the Netherlands where he performed with members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and has toured extensively with tenor, Rolando Villazon’s Bolivar Soloists appearing with the group at the Berlin Philharmonie, London’s Royal Festival Hall and the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris and also in Mexico, programs recorded for the Deutsche Grammaphon label.

He has toured to Venezuela, with double bass player, Edicson Ruiz of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and accompanied Bryn Terfel at Carnegie Hall in New York. Other engagements as an accompanist have seen him perform at many prestigious European concert venues including London’s Wigmore Hall and also at the Lucerne International Music Festival.

As a duo-pianist, with the internationally renowned, David Helfgott, Rhodri has given performances of the two-piano version of the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3 at the Sydney Opera House and the Melbourne Recital Centre and.

‘During 2017 he repeated these duo performances with David Helfgott at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, the Barbican Hall, London, the Musikverein in Vienna and the Kultur und Kongresszentrum in Lucerne, a live CD recording being made from this performance for release during 2018.   He completed the tour with further duo performances at Paris’ La Seine Musicale and the Tonhalle Maag Concert Hall in Zurich. He also accompanied Greta Bradman and Teddy Tahu Rhodes in Morning Melodies concerts for Arts Centre Melbourne.

Now based in Melbourne, as a piano teacher and chamber music coach, Rhodri has worked at Scotch College and Methodist Ladies College and was an Associate Artist at the Australian National Academy of Music for five years. Rhodri is Head of Music at Opera Scholars Australia and is a regular collaborative pianist at Melbourne University as well as maintaining a busy private teaching and accompaniment studio. As a chamber musician Rhodri is a member of the newly formed horn trio Quercus, and previous collaborations include Melbourne Piano Trio and Firebird Trio.