Professor Colin Stone

Colin is a Professor of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and an internationally acclaimed pianist. Colin first came to prominence in 1986 when he won the Royal Over-Seas League Piano Competition in London. Critically acclaimed performances at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall in the same year launched his career as a soloist.

In 1989 he made his debut  as a soloist on BBC Radio 3 and, following the success of his live Concert Hall broadcast in 1990 and the subsequent Prokofiev series, is regularly invited to record for Radio 3. A couple of years later he began a series of recordings for Pickwick's IMP Masters label with the then recently formed London Mozart Trio. Their recordings of Trios by Schubert and Dvorak were enthusiastically received by Gramophone magazine and their recording of Schubert's Trio in B flat D.898 was the overall first choice from twenty recordings on the BBC Radios 3's Building a Library; 'The best since Casals, Cortot and Thibaud'.

Colin’s first solo CD, of transcriptions by Prokofiev of his own theatre music, was released in 1994 on the United label and has been followed by a number of CDs for different labels including Olympia, Chandos and Merlin Classics. His discography is extensive, ranging from recordings of live performances taken from his Beethoven cycle to premiere recordings of contemporary music. Colin gave the world premiere of Robert Keeley's piano concerto Entourages in a live broadcast on BBC Radio 3 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in March 2001. He has recently performed the entire 24 Preludes and Fugues of Shostakovich to great acclaim in London, at an event specially introduced by Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Colin is also Artistic Director for the EdmissionUK International Piano Academy at Harrow School, and offers private tuition for EdmissionUK in London.