Christopher graduated from the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Frank Wibaut and Yu Chun-Yee, and received the Prokofiev Prize and the ARCM as a postgraduate. He has since enjoyed a busy career as a soloist, accompanist and repetiteur. Concert performances include Cadogan Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Hall, Symphony Hall Birmingham and music societies around the UK. He has performed concertos by Rachmaninov, Schumann, Gershwin and Kabalevsky. Christopher has served as the accompanist for the London Orpheus Choir and the South West Essex Choir, with whom he recently performed the piano solo in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, accompanied by the National Symphony Orchestra.
Christopher teaches and coaches for City Music Services and accompanies choirs at City firms, including J. P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs. He is currently directing performances of La Traviata from the piano for CMS in West Sussex and London, featuring professional soloists and amateur performers.
Christopher Duckett
Previous productions for CMS have included Don Giovanni, also directed from the piano; The Magic Flute at Glyndebourne, Carmen at Sadler’s Wells; as well as the musicals Oklahoma at Holland Park, Guys and Dolls at the Bloomsbury Theatre, and Anything Goes and Into the Woods at the Hackney Empire. He is also the accompanist for the Cor Meibon Gwalia, a Welsh Male Voice Choir based in London, with whom he performs and tours widely.
Christopher is also known for his performances of early jazz and the syncopated piano music of the 1920s and 1930s. His debut CD ‘Piano Exaggerations’ of music by the English composer Billy Mayerl has been featured on the ‘Essential Classics’ programme on BBC Radio 3.
Other forthcoming concerts include recitals in Suffolk and London with the singer Mark Glanville, with whom he recently toured in Egypt.
Christopher has been a member of Shoreham Oratorio Choir for several years and has previously served as Chair. He is delighted to become their new accompanist.
