Archie Bonham

Archie Bonham is the Adami Award for Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Royal College of Music in London, and a specialist in chamber music and song repertoire. In 2024 he was a Young Artist at Britten Pears Arts and Shipston Song Festival and was official pianist of the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange – a year-long programme culminating in two Wigmore Hall recitals, and a recital at the Salle Cortot in Paris. In Summer 2024, he was the New Horizons Fellow in Collaborative Piano at the Aspen Music Festival and School, working for eight weeks in the vocal studio of Renée Fleming. Recent competition prizes include the pianist prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards at Wigmore Hall, and first pianist prize and best duo prize at the Ashburnham English Song Awards 2024. In 2026 he will join the faculties of New Virtuosi International Violin Mastercourse in Oxford, and Oxenfoord International Vocal Summer School in St. Andrews. Archie is also a Senior Piano Tutor at Gresham’s School in Norfolk. He studied at the University of York and the Royal College of Music in London with Simon Lepper, Roger Vignoles, and Danny Driver. His studies were supported by the Needley Family Scholarship and the Viola Tunnard Trust.