Beth Haughan

Scottish-born Beth is a pianist and educator based in Birmingham. She has worked as soloist and in collaboration with many singers and instrumentalists in venues such as the Southbank Centre, the Wigmore Hall, Birmingham’s Symphony Hall and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Recent highlights of collaborations include being a Leeds Lieder Young Artist, playing Poulenc’s entire wind ouevre with RAM Chamber Fellows the Daphnis Wind Quintet in France and, with soprano of the Wiener Staatsoper Chorakademie, Alexandra Anusca, undertaking a concert tour of North West Germany.

Beth’s teaching is an integral part of her life, with visiting piano teacher positions at Solihull School and ACS International School Hillingdon. She understands that to develop as musicians and human beings, it is of paramount importance to bolster others from all communities – in the music we play, in the musicians we support and the audiences we serve. Outreach projects have included a recital at the Wigmore Hall with RAM Fellow clarinettist Melissa Youngs for their ‘Music for the Moment’ concert series as well as arranging workshops, concerts and a gala fundraiser in, and on behalf of, South Korean orphanages as part of a trip to Seoul with Purcell School’s Impulse team. 

The importance of programme curation is always at the forefront of her mind, wanting to feel represented in female and queer communities as well as performing music that represent the times we all live in. 

With collaboration at the heart of what is most important to her, she is currently studying collaborative piano on the Advanced Professional Diploma Course at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. She is a graduate of both the Royal College of Music (BMus First Class) and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (MMus Distinction). She also held a Weingarten Scholarship at the Liszt Ferenc Academy in Budapest, where she studied with Gábor Farkas. During her studies she won the Leamington Prize, the Sylvia Cleaver Chamber Prize and the Pianist Prize for three major collegiate song competitions. Prior to this she attended the Purcell School where she was awarded the Keyboard Prize for her year.