Jill Crossland

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Jill Crossland is a British pianist, born in Yorkshire. She studied with Ryszard Bakst (a Heinrich Neuhaus pupil) at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and with Paul Badura-Skoda in Vienna. Her recordings are available on Warner Music and the Divine Art Record Company. She specialises in Bach.

Performs regularly in the UK and abroad. Made Wigmore Hall solo debut in 2004. Has a preference for Baroque and Classical periods of the repertoire, to which she brings a distinctive passion and emotional commitment. Active concert and recording career; a rising star within the younger generation of European pianists.

Some of her recordings have been used in movies, too: the Aria from the Goldberg Variations in The English Patient and the Aria da Capo in Hannibal.

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