João
Araújo

Portugal

João Araújo graduated from the Royal College of Music in London with distinc tion where he studied piano accompaniment with Roger Vignoles, Simon Lepper and Nigel Clayton as an RCM Award Holder supported by a Barry Shaw Award. He has been awarded prizes in art song competitions including the accompanist prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards held at Wigmore Hall in 2017. Recent festivals appearances include song recitals at the Oxford Lieder Festival in the UK and Schubertiade Espace 2 in Switzerland. João is the official accompanist of the vocal and strings departments at Aveiro University in Portugal.

Last modified: 2018

Special prizes

  • John Newmark’ Best Collaborative Pianist Award

    $10,000

    offered by Richard Lupien

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