# Iain Burnside

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'''Iain Burnside''' is a [Scottish](/source/Scotland) [classical](/source/classical_music) [pianist](/source/pianist) and [accompanist](/source/accompanist), and an occasional presenter on [BBC Radio 3](/source/BBC_Radio_3).

Following study at [Merton College, Oxford](/source/Merton_College%2C_Oxford), the [Royal Academy of Music](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Music) and the [Chopin Academy](/source/Fryderyk_Chopin_Music_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](/source/BBC_Radio_3) website.</ref> He has collaborated with many singers, and was particularly close friends with the late soprano [Susan Chilcott](/source/Susan_Chilcott). Burnside is the godfather of Chilcott's son, Hugh, and following her death in 2003 became his [legal guardian](/source/legal_guardian).<ref>[India Knight](/source/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](/source/The_Times)'', September 14, 2003</ref>

Other singers he has worked and recorded with include [Dame Margaret Price](/source/Dame_Margaret_Price), [Galina Gorchakova](/source/Galina_Gorchakova),[Lawrence Brownlee](/source/Lawrence_Brownlee), [Rosa Feola](/source/Rosa_Feola) and [Roderick Williams](/source/Roderick_Williams), with whom he has recorded the complete [Finzi](/source/Gerald_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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Sony_Radio_Academy_Awards).<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](/source/BBC_Radio_3) website.</ref> He has also written various musical plays: ''[A Soldier and a Maker](/source/A_Soldier_and_a_Maker)'' on the life of [Ivor Gurney](/source/Ivor_Gurney), premiered in 2012 and later broadcast on. BBC Radio 3; ''Shining Armour'' on [Clara Schumann](/source/Clara_Schumann); ''Why does the Queen Die?'' and ''Swansong'' on [Franz Schubert](/source/Franz_Schubert); ''Journeying Boys'' on [Verlaine](/source/Verlaine) and [Rimbaud](/source/Rimbaud).

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