Our Accompanist -
Anthony Zerpa-Falcon
A prize-winner of both national and international competitions,
Anthony Zerpa-Falcon has established a reputation for exciting
and individual interpretations of a wide repertoire, ranging from
Purcell and Rameau to Boulez and Ligeti. He has won prizes at
international competitions such as the 44th "Maria Canals de Barcelona",
the 2002 Guerrero Foundation in Madrid, the National Federation
of Music Societies 1998 Britten/Pears Award, and the Royal Overseas
League International Music Competition. 
Born in London into an Anglo-Spanish family, Anthony gave his first
recital at the age of twelve, and made his concerto debut three years
later playing the Schumann Piano Concerto. He has performed across the UK and abroad:
in China, Hong-Kong, Spain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Greece and
the Netherlands.
He has been invited to perform with orchestras such as the BBC Concert
Orchestra, the Liverpool Philharmonic, the Philharmonie der Nationen,
the Neue Westfalen Philharmonie and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria,
and has given recitals in the South Bank Centre, St John's Smith Square,
the Barbican Centre, the Wigmore Hall, the Accademia Giuseppe Verdi in Milan,
the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and
the Concert Hall of the Forbidden City in Beijing.
In 1991, he was awarded a full scholarship to study at the Guildhall
School of Music in the class of Joan Havill, attaining a first class
honours degree, and winning all the prizes for keyboard, as well as awards
from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Myra Hess Foundation.
After winning the rarely awarded Concert Recital Diploma (Premier Prix),
he was invited to study at the Como Piano Academy in the town of Cadennabia
on Lake Como. As one of only six students selected from around the world
he received classes for two years from some of the world's leading concert
artists and professors, including Dmitri Bashkirov, Murray Perahia,
William Grant Nabore, Alicia de Larrocha, Karl Schnabel, Charles Rosen,
Fou Ts'ong and Leon Fleisher.
On radio and television in the UK, Anthony has given recitals as part
of the BBC Radio 3's Young Artists Forum series, on Radio 2 live from
the Chichester International Festival and was a finalist in the 1992
Young Musician of the Year Competition on BBC TV. He has performed for
Music Societies across England, Wales and Scotland, can be heard regularly
on national radio in Spain, and has broadcast on both 'Arte' and 'Mezzo',
Europe's two leading cultural television stations. He recently gave the
World Premieres of the "Concierto para Piano y Orquesta" by the esteemed
Spanish composer Juan José Falcón Sanabria in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,
and in the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid.
After three years living and working in Madrid, Anthony returned to
the UK, and lists among his future engagements concerts in Poland, Germany,
France, Japan, South Korea and the United States.
Anthony joined RTWCS in 2005; he is not only our rehearsal accompaning pianist,
he also often performs as a soloist in concerts.
Many choir members enjoyed a virtuoso recital by Anthony on 17th February 2007
in the Tunbridge Wells church of King Charles the Martyr, generously
given in aid of Cancer Research.
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