Benjamin Mead

Award winning British-Polish-German pianist Benjamin Mead has quickly established himself as a highly expressive and sensitive Collaborative Pianist

Praised as outstanding, perceptive and elevating, he is the co-founder of the Rhonefestival in Switzerland. He is constantly seeking for ways to revitalise the classical repertoire by combining unknown treasures in specially curated recital programmes.

Highlights include recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and L’Auditori Barcelona, as well as the Aldeburgh Festival, Leeds Lieder Festival, Schubertíada a Vilabertran, Oxford Lieder Festival, Andermatt Music, Zermatt Festival and Schumannfest Düsseldorf. He has performed alongside Dame Felicity Lott, Manuel Walser, Äneas Humm, Jessica Niles, Milan Siljanov, Felix Gygli, Franziska Heinzen, Krešimir Stražanac, Valerie Eickhoff, and Liam Bonthrone.

The debut album Les Six, released on SoloMusica with Franziska Heinzen, was highly praised by the press. Their second album, Women Composers, celebrating female composers from the romantic to the contemporary periods, was long-listed for Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik's Bestlist 2022. In early 2023, they released their third album Lieder us um Tal, a tribute to Swiss Art Song, on Prospero Classical. Benjamin's album Soirée parisienne with Scottish tenor Liam Bonthrone was released on Linn Records in 2023.

Having studied piano at the Robert Schumann Hochschule, Benjamin graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with a Master of Arts and an Advanced Diploma in Piano Accompaniment. He then held the position of Academy Voices and Song Circle Co-ordinator as Shinn Fellow and has recently joined the Vocal Faculty at the Academy as a Repertoire Coach.

Benjamin is a Britten Pears Young Artist and has received the generous support of the Leverhulme Trust, the ABRSM, the Carl Bechstein Stiftung as well as the Norbert Janssen Stiftung.