Iain Farrington has an exceptionally busy and diverse career as a pianist, organist, composer, and arranger. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and at Cambridge University. He has also participated in master-classes with Malcolm Martineau at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh. As a solo pianist, accompanist, chamber musician and organist, he has performed at all the major United Kingdom venues, including the Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, the Proms 2005 and 2004, the Royal Opera House, the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, St David’s Hall, Cardiff, and Birmingham Symphony Hall. Abroad, he has given concerts in Japan, South Africa, Jordan, Malaysia, Iceland, and all across Europe. He works with many of the country’s leading musicians, including John Mark Ainsley, Lesley Garrett, the Royal Ballet, Sir Simon Rattle, and Sir Colin Davis. He regularly gives broadcasts on BBC Radio Three with the BBC Singers.
Iain Farrington was Organ Scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge University, and with the College Choir he toured extensively, and recorded four CDs on the Naxos and Nimbus labels. He was also Organ Scholar at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where he played for numerous Royal occasions. He is also a prolific composer and arranger; his solo piano arrangement of Elgar/Payne Symphony No. 3 is published by Boosey and Hawkes, and his transcription of Elgar’s Five Piano Improvisations is published by Novello. As a composer, his works have been performed in New Zealand, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany and recorded on the Hyperion label.
