Heather Slade-Lipkin

'''Heather Slade-Lipkin''' (9 March 1947 – 16 October 2017) was an [[English people|English]] pianist, [[harpsichordist]] and teacher.

==Biography== Slade-Lipkin was born into a musical family from [[Hoylake]], [[Metropolitan Borough of Wirral|Wirral]]. She began formal piano lessons before the age of six and made her concerto debut at the age of twelve. She studied with [[Gordon Green (pianist)|Gordon Green]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Benser |first=Caroline Cepin |title=At the piano : interviews with 21st-century pianists |date=2012 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-8173-0 |location=Lanham, Md. |oclc=759606982}}</ref> and Clifton Helliwell at the [[Royal Northern College of Music]], and later in Paris with [[Kenneth Gilbert]] and [[Huguette Dreyfus]].

Slade-Lipkin taught piano at the [[RNCM|Royal Northern College of Music]] and the [[Royal Conservatoire of Scotland]], and was a professor of piano at [[Chetham's School of Music]]. She won first prizes at the National Piano Competition and the National Harpsichord Competition, and was a finalist in the Paris International Fortepiano Competition. She appeared as a soloist with the [[CBSO|City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra]] and the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]].<ref name="CMD">{{Cite web |date=2017-10-24 |title=Death of an influential keyboard teacher |url=https://slippedisc.com/2017/10/death-of-an-influential-keyboard-teacher/ |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=Slipped Disc |language=en}}</ref>

Notable students include:

{{div col|colwidth=22em}} * [[Stephen Hough]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naxos.com/artistinfo/stephen_hough_9060/9060.htm |title=Stephen Hough biography |publisher=Naxos |date=25 June 2011 |accessdate=16 January 2012}}</ref> * [[Stephen Coombs]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/a.asp?a=A254 |title=Stephen Coombs biography |publisher=Hyperion |date=16 August 2013 |accessdate=16 August 2013}}</ref> * [[Leon McCawley]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leonmccawley.com/main.asp |title=Leon McCawley |publisher=Leon McCawley |accessdate=16 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131144758/http://www.leonmccawley.com/main.asp |archive-date=31 January 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Sophie Yates<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sophieyates.co.uk/ |title=Sophie Yates |publisher=Sophie Yates |accessdate=16 January 2012}}</ref> * Robert Markham<ref>[http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/conservatoire/our-staff/robert-markham Birmingham Conservatoire: Robert Markham biography]</ref> * Stephen Gosling<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naxos.com/person/Stephen_Gosling/6757.htm |title=Stephen Gosling biography |publisher=Naxos |date=25 June 2011 |accessdate=16 January 2012}}</ref> * Phillip Moore<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philipmoorepianist.co.uk/ |title=Phillip Moore |publisher=Philipmoorepianist.co.uk |accessdate=16 January 2012}}</ref> * [[Roderick Chadwick]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ram.ac.uk/about-us/staff/roderick-chadwick |title=Royal Academy of Music: Roderick Chadwick biography |publisher=Ram.ac.uk |date=20 July 1976 |accessdate=16 January 2012}}</ref> * Jason Ridgway<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garyparkes.com/jasonridgway.html |title=Jason Ridgway biography |publisher=Gary Parkes Music |accessdate=16 August 2013}}</ref> * Jonathan Scott<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jonathanscott.co.uk/ |title=Jonathan Scott |publisher=Jonathan Scott |accessdate=16 January 2012}}</ref> * James Willshire<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jameswillshire.com/ |title=James Willshire |publisher=James Willshire |accessdate=16 January 2012}}</ref> * Tim Horton<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/music/artists/tim-horton |title=Tim Horton biography |publisher=Kings Place |accessdate=16 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312093456/http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/music/artists/tim-horton |archive-date=12 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Anna Markland]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Crookes-Anna.htm |title=BBC Young Musician: Anna Markland biography |publisher=Bach Cantatas |date=16 August 2013 |accessdate=16 August 2013}}</ref> * Sarah Nicolls<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/sarah-nicolls |title=Sarah Nicolls biography |publisher=Brunel |date=28 September 2011 |accessdate=16 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414050929/http://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/sarah-nicolls |archivedate=14 April 2015 }}</ref> * Joy-Helen Morin<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lesmusicalesderedon.fr/artiste/joy-helen-morin/|title=Redon Conservatoire: Joy-Helen Morin |language=fr |publisher=Cc-pays-redon.fr |accessdate=14 April 2022}}</ref> * Nellie Seng<ref>[http://www.alicehjones.com/calendar.html CUNY Doctoral Piano Listing: Nellie Seng]</ref> * Anna Michels<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stmarysmusicschool.co.uk/faculty/keyboard/person/anna-michels |title=Anna Michels |publisher=St Mary's Music School |accessdate=14 April 2022}}</ref>{{div col end}} * [[Robert Emery (pianist)|Robert Emery]] * Miles Clery-Fox * Jane Ford * Eleanor Meynell * [[James May]] Recordings by Heather Slade-Lipkin include ''Jean-Philippe Rameau: The Second Book of Pièces de Clavecins''<ref>Bruche Recordings: CBR102</ref> and ''Contrasts'' with mezzo-soprano Marilena Zlatanou.<ref>{{cite book |title=Contrast, antithesis |publisher=|oclc=31431622 }}</ref>

Slade-Lipkin died on 16 October 2017,<ref name="CMD"/> aged 70, from metastatic pancreatic cancer. She is interred at the Manchester Southern Cemetery.

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