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Chad Vindin
Pianist
Vocal coach
Chad Vindin is a vocal coach at the Royal Academy of Music and a staff pianist at the Royal College of Music, and he performs regularly across the UK and internationally.
As a collaborative pianist he is the winner of the accompanist prize at the Royal Overseas League Competition, the Ludmilla Andrew Russian Song Accompanist Prize at the Royal Academy of Music, and the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards Accompanist’s Prize at the Wigmore Hall.
Chad has worked extensively in opera for many years as a répétiteur and conductor. He was a founding member of the Sydney Chamber Opera Company, and has worked as a répétiteur for the Grange Festival, Bury Court Opera, Bergen National Opera, and the Royal Opera House, London. He was assistant conductor for the Grange Festival's production of Yeoman of the Guard, and conductor for Uncovered Opera's production of two Strauss operas: Der Rosenkavalier and Ariadne auf Naxos. He is a regular staff pianist at the Oxenfoord International Summer School for Singers and Accompanists with Malcolm Martineau, and he is an alumni of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme. As a chamber musician he has worked with ensembles including Manchester Collective, the Magnard Ensemble, and the Instante Collective.