The South African artist, widely regarded as one of the leading song and chamber-music pianists of his generation, collaborates in performance each season with many renowned singers and instrumentalists. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Ulster Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, and the Wiener Kammersymphonie. Baillieu is a frequent guest at many of the world’s most distinguished venues including Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, and Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, among many others. Festivals include those of Aix-en-Provence, Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, Festpillene i Bergen, Edinburgh, Spitalfields, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Bath, City of London, and Brighton. Baillieu has presented his own programming series at Wigmore Hall and has stewarded many song and chamber music series for the Brighton Festival, BBC Radio 3, Verbier Festival, Bath International Festival, and Perth Concert Hall. Recording projects with baritone Benjamin Appl, violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen, clarinetist Julian Bliss, and flutist Adam Walker figure prominently in his acclaimed discography. Baillieu is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, a coach for the Jette Parker Young Artist Program at the Royal Opera House, a course leader for the Samling Foundation, and head of the Song Program at the Atelier Lyrique of the Verbier Festival Academy.
