TEACHING
I am a Piano professor at the Royal College of Music, working with solo and collaborative piano students from undergraduate to Artist Diploma levels. I also lead the postgraduate Concerto Performance postgraduate module, which involves chairing seminars with invited guest speakers (previous guests have included Kathryn Enticott, Dinis Sousa, and Alexandra Dariescu). Additionally, I take faculty classes, coach chamber music and also teach Piano Pedagogy. I also teach at the RCM’s Junior Department, and regularly serve on admissions panels for both RCM and RCMJD.
I examine at RCM and other conservatoires, and was External Examiner for Guildhall’s Artist Diploma (Keyboard) recitals in 2023, and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama’s Associate Examiner. I have served on the jury for the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards for Large-Scale Composition (2016) and Chamber-Scale Composition (2020). I adjudicated the Royal Academy of Music’s Sterndale Bennett Piano Prize (for playing of Romantic piano music) in 2022.
At Guildhall School of Music & Drama, I am a Professor of Academic Studies and teach a module on the intersection between musical thought and practice. I became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2022.
I record the CDs for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM)’s Piano Syllabus, Grades 4 to 8.
I also feature in the Tido Music app, which includes my filmed performances and tutorial videos, which were made in collaboration with Edition Peters for their Piano Masterworks series.
For enquiries about consultation lessons and studying with me at the RCM (either at senior college or within the junior department), please email richard.uttley@rcm.ac.uk.
I sometimes have availability for private lessons, either in London or online over Zoom. Please email contact@richarduttley.com for enquiries.
I have given lectures on the following topics:
– Connections between Robert Schumann’s piano music and the literature he loved– The emergence of the ‘piano recital’ in the nineteenth century
– Twentieth-century pianists
– Mozart’s keyboard cadenzas
– Topic Theory, applied to eighteenth-century keyboard music and beyond
– Chopin’s Mazurkas: myths and legends
– Beethoven’s Sonatas for piano and violin
– Satie’s Parade