‘A wonderfully responsive and assured pianist’ (The Telegraph), Ian Tindale is increasingly in demand as a specialist in song repertoire and chamber music, with partners on the song stage including Roderick Williams, Helen Charlston and Benjamin Appl. Highlights in 2025 include a return to the Aldeburgh Festival for a recital of Britten, Holst and Kidane with Nick Pritchard, and a recital at the Oxford International Song Festival with Soraya Mafi. Other frequent collaborators include James Gilchrist, Julien Van Mellaerts, Robin Tritschler, Ailish Tynan and Bethany Horak-Hallett.

Ian has performed at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and on BBC Radio 3 and the BBC World Service with BBC New Generation Artists tenor Santiago Sánchez and clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe. Hailed as ‘an articulate and sensitive partner’ (Opera Today), other recital highlights in past seasons include at Salle Bourgie (Montréal), Palau de la Música (Barcelona), and Het Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), and he has been invited to curate song recitals for the Ludlow English Song Weekend and the Samling Institute, both at the Wigmore Hall (London). His album of Schubert Lieder ‘Love’s Lasting Power’ on Delphian Records with regular duo partner and soprano Harriet Burns was praised as ‘a very fine disc indeed’ (Gramophone) and received five stars from the BBC Music Magazine. Their second disc, ‘A Short Story of Falling’, will be released in summer 2025 and features two world premieres by Christopher Churcher and Derri Joseph Lewis.

In recent years, Ian has held roles as Official Pianist to the Wigmore Song Competition in London, the International Vocal Competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, and the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Ian is also the founding Artistic Director of Shipston Song, an annual festival in the Cotswolds, UK, and he is a vocal repertoire and song coach at the Royal College of Music, London. Ian lives in Oxford with his partner, organist Richard Moore.