Elisabeth Rossiter

photo. Wigmore High Res.

Elizabeth Rossiter is based in London and enjoys a busy performing career primarily as a song accompanist and chamber musician. In Britain, she has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, The Barbican, Queen Elizabeth and Bridgewater Halls, Sage Gateshead, Kings Place, the Purcell Room, the Crush Room of the Royal Opera House, and has broadcast many times on BBC Radio 3, from the Albert Hall in the Proms, and on national television. She has performed widely in mainland Europe, including concerts in France, Germany and Hungary. She is a Samling Scholar, a Park Lane Group, a Britten-Pears Young Artist, a Yeoman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians and the official accompanist of the National Mozart Singing Competition.

She won scholarships to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London from where she graduated with Distinction and was the Accompaniment Fellow. She completed her studies as an Associate Trainee at the National Opera Studio.

Competition successes include the Pianists’ Prize at the Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition, the Concordia Serena Nevill Prize and the Queen Mary II Accompaniment Prize at the Guildhall. Her work as a répétiteur has taken her to Opera Holland Park, the Grimebourne Festival and Grange Park Opera.

In addition to her performing career, Elizabeth very much enjoys her teaching at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she also works as a staff accompanist.