Richard Saxel has established a reputation as one of the most versatile concert pianists of his generation, and has partnerships with some of the most exciting chamber musicians in the country. He has won several major awards with a variety of colleagues, and has given recitals at most of the leading venues in this country. Richard was one of the six pianists in Piano Circus, with whom he performed and broadcast contemporary music at major festivals around the world. He studied the piano with the late Clifford Benson whilst at the University of York, and then with Michael Dussek as a postgraduate at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2010 he will release his first solo CD of Janacek, Schumann and MacDowell on the Quartz label. He is currently Head of Keyboard Studies at Cranleigh School in Surrey.