Craig
White
Craig White is a passionate and highly acclaimed chamber musician, dedicated to both instrumental and vocal repertoire. At the Royal Academy of Music in London, he studied with Michael Dussek and Diana Ketler. Craig has won various accolades including the Centenary Kathleen Ferrier Awards, adding to his top accompanist prizes at the Thelma King Awards, Great Elm Vocal Awards, and AESS Finals.
Craig’s versatility as a collaborative pianist has led him to work at various International Music Academies, including the Schiermonnikoog masterclasses in Holland, Rencontres Musicales Internationales D’Enghien in Belgium, Kronberg Akademie in Germany, and the Voksenasen Akademie in Norway. In 2017, he adjudicated the Con Brio Piano Competition in Mumbai, India, and has collaborated with renowned artists such as Dame Kiri te Kanawa and Waltraud Meier at the Aix-en-Provence Académie.
Craig’s career as a staff pianist at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and a Duo-Coach at the Royal College of Music has allowed him to share his expertise with aspiring musicians.
He has recently completed a recording of the complete Joseph Jongen Melodies with Belgian soprano Sarah Defrise. Beyond performing, Craig is an accomplished arranger. His new “5 Preludes for Violin and Piano” (Debussy/Arr White) are published by DB Edition and have been performed across Europe. They were featured on an album with Daniel Rowland on Violin and Natacha Kudritskaya on Piano, and his arrangement of Debussy’s “Serenade Interrompue” was later released on Daniel Rowland and Maja Bogdanovic’s debut CD, “Pas de deux”.