Jill Crossland

Portrait of Jill Crossland

Jill Crossland is an English pianist, born in Yorkshire. She studied with Ryszard Bakst (a Heinrich Neuhaus pupil) at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester,<ref name="Lawson" /> and with Paul Badura-Skoda in Vienna.<ref name="Satz" /> She has a preference for Baroque and Classical periods of the repertoire,<ref name="Satz" /> with a focus on the music by Johann Sebastian Bach, playing it on the piano.<ref name="Lawson" /> She has performed his Well-Tempered Clavier from memory since her student years.<ref name="Lawson" />

Crossland made her Wigmore Hall solo debut in 2004.<ref name="Satz" /> She recorded in 2003 Bach's English Suite No 2, BWV 807, Partita No 1, BWV 825, and his Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903.<ref name="Lawson" /> She also recorded his Goldberg Variations, and piano sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven.<ref name="Lawson" /> In 2005, she recorded works by Bach, Handel and Scarlatti on a historic fortepiano, built by Jirikowsky in 1824, at Restoration House in Rochester.<ref name="Satz" /> 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<ref name="Distler" />.He described her approach as "intimately scaled and sensitively nuanced".<ref name="Distler 2" />

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• Jill Crossland (Piano) Bach Cantatas Website
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• Johann Sebastian Bach / Jill Crossland / The Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1 challengerecords.com
• Woman's Hour / The Crossland Piano Duo BBC 5 February 2002
• Jill Crossland Recital – 6 May 2003 - Purcell Room, London classicalsource.com 2003