Jill Crossland

She studied with Ryszard Bakst (a Heinrich Neuhaus pupil) at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester,[1] and with Paul Badura-Skoda in Vienna.

[2] She has a preference for Baroque and Classical periods of the repertoire,[2] with a focus on the music by Johann Sebastian Bach, playing it on the piano.

[1] She also recorded his Goldberg Variations, and piano sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven.

[1] In 2005, she recorded works by Bach, Handel and Scarlatti on a historic fortepiano, built by Jirikowsky in 1824, at Restoration House in Rochester.

[2] She recorded Parts I and II of the Well-Tempered Clavier, and a reviewer of Gramophone noted in 2008 the "warm, rounded and perpetually singing sonority" of her playing[3].He described her approach as "intimately scaled and sensitively nuanced".