Paul Christopher Richard Crossley CBE (born 17 May 1944) is a British pianist.
[1] While a student at Mansfield College, Oxford, he was discovered by Olivier Messiaen and his wife Yvonne Loriod, who heard him play and immediately invited him to come to Paris to study with them.
Crossley is particularly associated with the music of Messiaen and British composers such as Michael Tippett, Nicholas Maw and George Benjamin.
Tippett wrote his third and fourth piano sonatas specifically with Crossley in mind.
He presented a landmark television series on avant garde classical music entitled Sinfonietta for Channel 4.