Frasier Hickland

Praised in recital for being ‘dramatically sensitive’ (OperaWire) and for his ‘flair and dexterity’ (Seen and Heard International), Irish pianist Frasier Hickland is a graduate of the Royal College of Music, London, and has performed in many prestigious venues in Europe and America, including Wigmore Hall, London, the Oxford International Song Festival, the Leeds Lieder Festival, the Willard InterContinental, Washington DC, the Yacht Club de Monaco, Monte-Carlo, and the National Concert Hall, Dublin. He has also been featured on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Ulster, RTE Lyric FM and has performed for dignitaries such as HM King Charles III and HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco. Alongside his duo partner, flutist Amy Gillen, he was selected as a ‘Rising Star’ at the West Wicklow Chamber Music Festival and the duo recently made their Royal Albert Hall recital debut.

A finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Awards, other competition successes include winning the John Kerr Award for English Song, the Brooks-van der Pump English Song Competition, and the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival Bursary Award. As a répétiteur he has collaborated with Northern Ireland Opera, Opera Holland Park, Wexford Festival Opera, Festival della Valle d’Itria, Blackwater Valley Opera Festival and Opera Collective Ireland on works including Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Verdi’s La Traviata/Macbeth, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Puccini’s La Bohème/Tosca/Edgar, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream/Owen Wingrave and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onégin. He debuted as music director for Philip Glass’ The Juniper Tree in the Grand Opera House, Belfast to great acclaim (“Looks as delicious as it sounds” – The Stage, Four Stars).