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Rachel Fuller commenced her studies at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand with concert pianist Diedre Irons in 1992, graduating with First Class Honours in Piano Performance. During her studies she developed a passion for Chamber Music and Accompaniment. In 1997 Rachel commenced studies in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Michael Dussek and Tatiana Sarkissova and in 2000 graduated with a Masters in Music.In 1999 she received the Christian Carpenter and Michael Head Awards for Piano Accompaniment from the Royal Academy of Music and in 1997 Rachel received a Trustbank Arts Excellence Award and the Peter Lees-Jefferies Prize to support her studies in London. Rachel has performed recitals with many instrumentalists and singers. In 1999 Rachel toured New Zealand with Swedish mezzo Catrin Johnsson and toured in 2003 for Chamber Music New Zealand with contralto Anne Lamont Low performing a programme in remembrance of Kathleen Ferrier. Rachel has performed extensively with blind Japanese violist DrTakashi Kikuchi. Together they have performed much of the British viola repertoire of the twentieth century including works by York Bowen, Benjamin Dale and William Wolstenholm as well as works by the Italian composer Alessandro Rolla. Rachel and Dr Kikuchi recently performed in a fundraising concert for the Royal National Institute for the Blind. Over the past three years Rachel has worked with leading British Chamber Opera Company Diva Opera as a repetiteur and administrator. Rachel currently works as a freelance accompanist, chamber musician, repetiteur and vocal coach. Her forthcoming engagements include a performance with violist Takashi Kikuchi in Suffolk, U.K., a tour of New Zealand with contralto Anne Lamont Low, as well as further recitals in Sweden and England with mezzo Catrin Johnsson, with whom she has recently recorded a CD.
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