Biography
George was born in Manchester in 2001, and his passion for music was kindled in earnest as a chorister at Manchester Cathedral.
Based in London, George works across the UK and Europe as a pianist, specialising in chamber music and song. He has recently performed at Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Paris's Salle Cortot with instrumentalists and singers. His recording of Richard Strauss's Sonata for Violin and Piano with Nathan Mierdl for Linn Records will be released next year, and his Signum Classics recording of Rodrigo Ruiz's song cycle Venus & Adonis with Grace Davidson won the Spanish prize 'Melomano de Oro' in 2025.
He is a Samling Artist, a former Leeds Song Festival Young Artist and participated in the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange in 2026. He and Swedish mezzo-soprano Klara Solen are Young Artists at the Oxford International Song Festival this year. He looks forward to upcoming performances with baritone Roderick Williams and cellist Hannah Roberts.
George studied German and Music at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he was organ scholar. He is now studying for an MA in Ensemble Piano at the Royal Academy of Music with Professors Michael Dussek and James Baillieu, where he is a scholarship recipient and a member of the Academy Song Circle. In 2026 George won the Academy's Schumann Lieder Prize for pianists and the Strings and Piano Duo Prize. He won the pianist's prize at the 2026 Eastbourne International Singing Competition, and he won first prize and the audience prize at the Somerset Song Competition. He studies singing at the Academy with Giles Underwood, and is an Associate Artist with Tenebrae Choir. George is generously supported by the Hattori Foundation.
He is passionate about interdisciplinary work, and has recently collaborated with composer David Roche on a Welsh language heavy metal project. He works with environmental author Bernhard Malkmus on literary-musical project ‘Flight Paths’, with recent performances in Oxford, Newcastle and Regensburg. In 2025 he curated the ‘Chapel Lates’ chamber and song recital series at New College, Oxford.
