{{Short description|Scottish pianist and accompanist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Iain Burnside''' is a Scottish classical pianist and accompanist, and an occasional presenter on BBC Radio 3.
Following study at Merton College, Oxford, the Royal Academy of Music and the Chopin Academy, in Warsaw he became a freelance pianist, specialising particularly in song repertoire.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/presenters/iain_burnside.shtml Iain Burnside] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090729111036/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/presenters/iain_burnside.shtml |date=2009-07-29}} at the BBC Radio 3 website.</ref> He has collaborated with many singers, and was particularly close friends with the late soprano Susan Chilcott. Burnside is the godfather of Chilcott's son, Hugh, and following her death in 2003 became his legal guardian.<ref>India Knight, "[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article1158678.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1 Saved by a guardian angel]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}" in ''The Times'', September 14, 2003</ref>
Other singers he has worked and recorded with include Dame Margaret Price, Galina Gorchakova,Lawrence Brownlee, Rosa Feola and Roderick Williams, with whom he has recorded the complete Finzi baritone songs,.<ref> Andrew Clements, "[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/may/06/classicalmusicandopera.shopping2 Finzi: I Said to Love; Let Us Garlands Bring; Before and After Summer: Williams/ Burnside]" in ''The Guardian'', Friday 6 May 2005</ref><ref>[http://www.classicsonline.com/artistbio/Iain_Burnside/ Discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716073235/http://www.classicsonline.com/artistbio/Iain_Burnside/ |date=2011-07-16 }} at classicsonline.com</ref>
After presenting the Cardiff Singer of the World competition, he became a presenter on Radio 3, for many years fronting the weekly song-orientated show ''Voices'' for which he won a Sony Radio Award.<ref>[http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/a.asp?a=A103 Iain Burnside] at the Hyperion Records website.</ref> Later he began presenting the Sunday morning programme.<ref>''[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x2w5 Iain Burnside]'' (programme) [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x2w5] at the BBC Radio 3 website.</ref> He has also written various musical plays: ''A Soldier and a Maker'' on the life of Ivor Gurney, premiered in 2012 and later broadcast on. BBC Radio 3; ''Shining Armour'' on Clara Schumann; ''Why does the Queen Die?'' and ''Swansong'' on Franz Schubert; ''Journeying Boys'' on Verlaine and Rimbaud.
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