Heather Slade-Lipkin Explained

Heather Slade-Lipkin (9 March 1947 – 16 October 2017) was an English pianist, harpsichordist and teacher.

Biography

Slade-Lipkin was born into a musical family from Hoylake, Wirral. She began formal piano lessons before the age of six and made her concerto debut at the age of twelve. She studied with Gordon Green^[1] and Clifton Helliwell at the Royal Northern College of Music, and later in Paris with Kenneth Gilbert and Huguette Dreyfus.

Slade-Lipkin taught piano at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and was a professor of piano at Chetham's School of Music. She won first prizes at the National Piano Competition and the National Harpsichord Competition, and was a finalist in the Paris International Fortepiano Competition. She appeared as a soloist with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.^[2]

Notable students include:

• Stephen Hough^[3]
• Stephen Coombs^[4]
• Leon McCawley^[5]
• Sophie Yates^[6]
• Robert Markham^[7]
• Stephen Gosling^[8]
• Phillip Moore^[9]
• Roderick Chadwick^[10]
• Jason Ridgway^[11]
• Jonathan Scott^[12]
• James Willshire^[13]
• Tim Horton^[14]
• Anna Markland^[15]
• Sarah Nicolls^[16]
• Joy-Helen Morin^[17]
• Nellie Seng^[18]
• Anna Michels^[19]
  • Robert Emery Miles Clery-Fox
• Jane Ford
• Eleanor Meynell
• James May

Recordings by Heather Slade-Lipkin include Jean-Philippe Rameau: The Second Book of Pièces de Clavecins^[20] and Contrasts with mezzo-soprano Marilena Zlatanou.^[21]

Slade-Lipkin died on 16 October 2017,^[2] aged 70, from metastatic pancreatic cancer. She is interred at the Manchester Southern Cemetery.

Notes and References

1. Book: Benser, Caroline Cepin . At the piano : interviews with 21st-century pianists . 2012 . Scarecrow Press . 978-0-8108-8173-0 . Lanham, Md. . 759606982.
2. Web site: 2017-10-24 . Death of an influential keyboard teacher . 2022-04-14 . Slipped Disc . en.
3. Web site: Stephen Hough biography . Naxos . 25 June 2011 . 16 January 2012.
4. Web site: Stephen Coombs biography . Hyperion . 16 August 2013 . 16 August 2013.
5. Web site: Leon McCawley . Leon McCawley . 16 January 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120131144758/http://www.leonmccawley.com/main.asp . 31 January 2012 . dead .
6. Web site: Sophie Yates . Sophie Yates . 16 January 2012.
7. http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/conservatoire/our-staff/robert-markham Birmingham Conservatoire: Robert Markham biography
8. Web site: Stephen Gosling biography . Naxos . 25 June 2011 . 16 January 2012.
9. Web site: Phillip Moore . Philipmoorepianist.co.uk . 16 January 2012.
10. Web site: Royal Academy of Music: Roderick Chadwick biography . Ram.ac.uk . 20 July 1976 . 16 January 2012.
11. Web site: Jason Ridgway biography . Gary Parkes Music . 16 August 2013.
12. Web site: Jonathan Scott . Jonathan Scott . 16 January 2012.
13. Web site: James Willshire . James Willshire . 16 January 2012.
14. Web site: Tim Horton biography . Kings Place . 16 January 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120312093456/http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/music/artists/tim-horton . 12 March 2012 . dead .
15. Web site: BBC Young Musician: Anna Markland biography . Bach Cantatas . 16 August 2013 . 16 August 2013.
16. Web site: Sarah Nicolls biography . Brunel . 28 September 2011 . 16 January 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150414050929/http://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/sarah-nicolls . 14 April 2015 .
17. Web site: Redon Conservatoire: Joy-Helen Morin . fr . Cc-pays-redon.fr . 14 April 2022.
18. http://www.alicehjones.com/calendar.html CUNY Doctoral Piano Listing: Nellie Seng
19. Web site: Anna Michels . St Mary's Music School . 14 April 2022.
20. Bruche Recordings: CBR102
21. Book: Contrast, antithesis . 14 April 2022 . WorldCat.org . 31431622 .