Alice Pinto

Alice Pinto BMus (Hons), MMus, LRAM is increasingly renowned for her work with young musicians, particularly string players, as a collaborative pianist and ensemble coach. Her particular area of expertise is with talented young musicians, including students at the Purcell and Menuhin schools, and junior/senior London conservatoires,  regularly accompanying recitals, exams, auditions, concerts and competitions. She is a resident accompanist at MusicFest Aberystwyth each July, and at LSG Bryanston each August. Alice teaches piano and provides piano accompaniment at Bute House Prep School (since 2013) and Royal Masonic School for Girls (since 2022).
 

Alice has given critically-acclaimed performances both in the UK and abroad. Solo highlights include live broadcasts on Icelandic national radio, concerto performances with the Cambridge Graduate Symphony Orchestra, Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra, and St. Paul’s Sinfonia, and appearances at Við Djúpið Festival, Two Moors Festival, Cambridge Summer Music Festival, Lake District Summer Music, St. John’s Smith Square, Kings Place, and with Orpheus Sinfonia Principals and the Orchestra of the Swan. In 2016 Alice was the on-stage pianist in The Kreutzer Sonata at Arcola Theatre, starring Greg Hicks; a production which garnered praise in the national press. Alice is a regular guest at the Malcolm Arnold Festival in Northampton, at the invitation of Paul Harris, having presented lecture recitals most years since 2012.
 

Alice gained her MMus degree (performance and research) from the Royal Academy of Music, where she held a Richard Carne Scholarship and was short-listed for the Jacob Barnes Scholarship. As an undergraduate, Alice was a finalist in every internal competition she entered including the Beethoven, Chopin, Scarlatti and open recital prizes and was awarded the Anthony Lindsay Piano Prize and the Manager’s Discretion Prize in the Jaques Samuels Intercollegiate Piano Competition. She graduated with first-class honours and the Isabelle Bond Gold Medal keyboard nomination. Alice was previously the Else and Leonard Cross Memorial Scholar at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and the Nora Day Keyboard Scholar at St. Paul’s Girls’ School, where she was also the Alice Lupton Keyboard Prize winner. From 2013-2014 Alice held a Leverhulme Fellowship with Pro Corda.