Alison Procter

piano

British pianist Alison Procter began piano lessons at the age of six having heard a friend playing at a birthday party. By the age of fourteen she had decided not only that she wanted to pursue music as a career, but specifically that she wanted to become an accompanist. After two years as a scholarship holder at Wells Cathedral School studying with Hilary Coates she gained an entrance scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied piano with Christopher Elton and accompaniment with John Streets, Michael Dussek and subsequently with Gordon Back Alison has since been awarded many prizes for chamber music playing including the Ivan Sutton Award from the Young Musicians' Recording Thist, a bursary from the Craxton Trust and both the Liza Fuchsova Prize and the Accompanists' Award from the Royal Overseas League Music Competition.
Whilst freelancing in London she acted regularly as official audition accompanist for the Philharmonia, the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Craxton Trast and the National Youth Orchestra, which appointed her Principal Accompanist in 2005. In September 2007 she was also one of the official accompanists for the ARD Musikwettbewerb München. As a chamber pianist she has worked with some of Europe's most distinguished instrumentalists including Jonathan Kelly (solo oboe, Berlin Philharmonic), John Wallace (trumpet), Christopher Warren-Green (former leader, Philharmonia), David Pyatt (principal horn, London Symphony Orchestra), Natalie Clein (cello) and Matthew Trusler (violin) as well as several members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra including Wilfried Hedenborg (violin) and Thomas Jöbsti (horn).
She has a particulary special professional relationship with her husband Ian Bousfield, former principal trombone with the London Symphony Orchestra, with whom she moved to Vienna in September 2000 when he was appointed solo trombone of the Vienna Prnlharmonic Orchestra. They have been working together now for over fifteen years, during which time they have given recitals and masterclasses at most of Britain's music schools and colleges and continue to perform regularly throughout Europe, Japan and the USA Their first CD "Trombone Recital" was released by EMI in April 1997 and their most recent recording is a collection of French repertoire for trombone and piano available on the Camerata label.