Simon Crawford-Phillips graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1999, with a first-class honours degree, where he was awarded a scholarship to study with Hamish Milne.

　In 1994, he gave a performance of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto in Italy at the Spoleto Festival and has since then been invited by Gian Carlo Menotti to give solo performances at the festival. In the past three years Simon Crawford-Phillips has made several broadcasts for Radio 3 as a chamber musician, as part of their Young Artists' Forum series, for their Ensemble Programme and in their lunchtime series at the Wigmore Hall.

　With piano duo partner Philip Moore, he won the International Schubert Competition for Piano Duos in the Czech Republic and the Rio-Tinto Ensemble Prize at the Royal Over-Seas League Competition. In 1998 they were selected to represent Britain in the Fourth International Piano Duo Competition in Tokyo where they won Second Prize and last year they made their Wigmore Hall debut, made possible by an award from the Friends of the Royal Academy of Music in London.

　Together with Malin Broman and Jesper Svedberg, Simon formed the Kungsbacka Pianotrio who won the Melbourne International Chamber Music Copetition in 1999.In 1999-2000 season, the trio made their debut at the Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room in London, and also toured Sweden, Scotland, France and Germany, and made recordings for BBC Radio channel 3. For more information, www.pianotrio.com

　Simon Crawford-Phillips is very grateful for the generous support of the Hattori Foundation, Sir Henry Richardson Award, Geoffrey Parsons Memorial Fund, Martin Musical Fund and the Royal Academy of Music in London.