Each year the Sam Hutching Pianist Prize is awarded to an outstanding accompanist to work with Malcolm Martineau and alongside our experienced staff, playing for classes and rehearsals as required.
2025 recipient: Curtis Vetter
Curtis Vetter is a British-German pianist who is acclaimed as a recitalist with singers and instrumentalists, and as a répétiteur. He is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music with James Baillieu and Joseph Middleton, where he is awarded the Sir Curtis Price Scholarship. His studies are generously supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. Curtis holds a First-Class Honours degree in Music from the University of Birmingham.
Recent highlights include Schubertiada with Royal Academy of Music Song Circle at the Austrian Cultural Forum with Baritone Aksel Rykkvin and Masterclasses with Susan Bullock and Mark Padmore.
Previous recipients of the prize:
2024 Francesca Lauri
2023 Eunji Han
2022 Matthew Gibson
2021 Course cancelled due to pandemic
2020 Course cancelled due to pandemic
2019 Marina Staneva/Kunal Lahiry (joint)
2018 Ewan Gilford
2017 Keval Shah
2016 Natalie Burch/Conal Bembridge-Sayers (joint)
2015 John Cuthbert
2014 Dearbhla Collins
2013 Chris Harding/Geoffrey Tanti (joint)
