James Longford’s sensitive and scintillating musicality at the piano has endeared him to audiences all over the world, in such venues as Wigmore Hall, BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Barbican, St David's Hall, Snape Maltings, Queen’s Hall Edinburgh, London Palladium, Brighton Pavilion, Latitude, Cologne Schauspiel, Oslo Opera House, Weimar Hochschule für Musik, Venice Biennale, Milan Fondazione Cariplo, at festivals in Anghiari, Avignon and Tel Aviv, and on many an ocean as a featured classical artist for Cunard. He has worked with conductors such as Marin Alsop, Martyn Brabbins, Nicholas Collon, Gerry Cornelius, Laurence Cummings, Paul Daniel, Sian Edwards, Edward Gardener, Paul McCreesh, Andreas Scholl and Simone Young.

Music staff for: Royal Opera House & Royal Ballet, English National Opera, Scottish Opera, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Opera North, Kokoro, Synergy Vocals, Polyphony, Gabrieli Consort, London Sinfonietta, Grange Festival, Royal Marines School of Music, London Concert Choir, Birmingham Opera Company, Garsington Opera, Bampton Classical Opera, Bregenzer Festspiele and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Closer to home, he is a passionate educator and works with many local community choirs and musicians on the Isle of Wight, where he lives.

James is part of the Galos Piano Trio, founded in 2012 – an award from the Ambache Trust supported our recent recording of works by Clara Schumann and two of her contemporaries, Louise Le Beau & Agnes Zimmermann.

James was awarded the Tagore Gold Medal during his studies at the Royal College of Music. He also trained at the Britten-Pears School, St.Martin-in-the-Fields and Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, and was selected as a Steinway Artist in 2014.