Clive Pollard

Clive Pollard studied Piano at the Royal College of Music, and later at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Ferenc Rados (the teacher of Andras Schiff). He won a scholarship to enable him to study Lieder Accompaniment at the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg. Clive played regularly for the BBC Radio 4 programme "Singing Together" before working as a repetiteur for Pavilion Opera, Icelandic Opera (Reykjavík), the Royal Ballet Company and Northern Ballet Theatre. He has worked as Staff Accompanist at the Academie de Musique de Sion in Switzerland, and at the AIMS International Music School and Dartington International Summer School. Clive is based in London, where he accompanies and coaches singers on the Art Song repertoire.