Ilan Kurtser is a Britten-Pears Young Artist, Samling Artist and Leeds Lieder Young Artist. He
won numerous prizes in competitions in the UK and abroad, including First Prize at the
Copenhagen International Lied Duo Competition, Kathleen Ferrier Awards Accompanist
Prize, Bampton Classical Opera Competition Accompanist Prize and Richard Lewis/Jean
Shanks Prize. Ilan was a finalist at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition 2024
together with baritone Jonathan Eyers.
Ilan was a Bicentenary Scholar at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied Piano
Accompaniment with Michael Dussek, James Baillieu and Malcolm Martineau. As part of his
Bicentenary Scholarship, he is recording his debut CD of the complete Goethe-Lieder by
Hugo Wolf.

Concert highlights have included recitals with Gweneth Ann Rand and Stephen Whitford at
the Aldeburgh Festival, violist Paul Silverthorne in Museo del Violino in Cremona, Italy,
mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston in Leeds Lieder Festival and performances at Wigmore
Hall, International Lied Festival Zeist, Sage Gateshead, Leeds Victoria Hall and Jerusalem
Music Centre.
Ilan was a Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music where he curated over 20 concerts for the
Academy Song Circle and Academy Voices concert series, teaching and coaching singers
and pianists. Ilan is currently a répétiteur for the Royal Academy Opera.