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'''Iain Burnside''' is a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[classical music|classical]] [[pianist]] and [[accompanist]], and an occasional presenter on [[BBC Radio 3]].

Following study at [[Merton College, Oxford]], the [[Royal Academy of Music]] and the [[Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy|Chopin Academy]], in Warsaw he became a freelance pianist, specialising particularly in song repertoire.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/presenters/iain_burnside.shtml Iain Burnside] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090729111036/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/presenters/iain_burnside.shtml |date=2009-07-29}} at the [[BBC Radio 3]] website.</ref> He has collaborated with many singers, and was particularly close friends with the late soprano [[Susan Chilcott]]. Burnside is the godfather of Chilcott's son, Hugh, and following her death in 2003 became his [[legal guardian]].<ref>[[India Knight]], "[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article1158678.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1 Saved by a guardian angel]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}" in ''[[The Times]]'', September 14, 2003</ref>

Other singers he has worked and recorded with include [[Dame Margaret Price]], [[Galina Gorchakova]],[[Lawrence Brownlee]], [[Rosa Feola]] and [[Roderick Williams]], with whom he has recorded the complete [[Gerald Finzi|Finzi]] baritone songs,.<ref>
Andrew Clements, "[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/may/06/classicalmusicandopera.shopping2 Finzi: I Said to Love; Let Us Garlands Bring; Before and After Summer: Williams/ Burnside]" in ''[[The Guardian]]'', Friday 6 May 2005</ref><ref>[http://www.classicsonline.com/artistbio/Iain_Burnside/ Discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716073235/http://www.classicsonline.com/artistbio/Iain_Burnside/ |date=2011-07-16 }} at classicsonline.com</ref>

After presenting the [[Cardiff Singer of the World]] competition, he became a presenter on Radio 3, for many years fronting the weekly song-orientated show ''Voices'' for which he won a [[Sony Radio Academy Awards|Sony Radio Award]].<ref>[http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/a.asp?a=A103 Iain Burnside] at the Hyperion Records website.</ref> Later he began presenting the Sunday morning programme.<ref>''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/iainburnside/ Iain Burnside]'' (programme) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231091236/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/iainburnside/ |date=2008-12-31}} at the [[BBC Radio 3]] website.</ref> He has also written various musical plays: ''[[A Soldier and a Maker]]'' on the life of [[Ivor Gurney]], premiered in 2012 and later broadcast on. BBC Radio 3; ''Shining Armour'' on [[Clara Schumann]]; ''Why does the Queen Die?'' and ''Swansong'' on [[Franz Schubert]]; ''Journeying Boys'' on [[Verlaine]] and [[Rimbaud]].

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