BIOGRAPHY

Archie Bonham is a sought-after collaborative pianist specialising in chamber music and the vocal repertoire of art song and opera. Currently the Adami Award for Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Royal College of Music in London he has performed as a song and chamber recitalist at Wigmore Hall, the Royal Ballet and Opera, Royal Albert Hall, and Salle Cortot in Paris. He has been a young artist at Britten Pears Arts (French mélodie with Véronique Gens and Susan Manoff, German lieder with Benjamin Appl and James Baillieu), and Shipston Song Festival, and was official pianist for the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange led by Dame Felicity Lott. In 2024, he was the New Horizons Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School, playing for the vocal studios of Renée Fleming, Carol Vaness, and Stephen King. He was a Fellow at the Oxenfoord International Vocal Summer School, and is a Samling Artist. With the chamber music collective EMPOWER he has broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. 

Archie won the pianist prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards at Wigmore Hall, and pianist and best duo prizes at the Ashburnham English Song Awards with regular duo partner Ellen Pearson. During his studies at the Royal College of Music he was awarded all the major prizes for vocal collaboration. He regularly appears in recital series’ across the country both with singers and instrumentalists. 

In 2026 Archie joins the faculties of the New Virtuosi International Violin Mastercourse in Oxford and the Oxenfoord International Vocal Summer School in St Andrews. Alongside his work at the Royal College of Music and freelance performing, he is a Piano Tutor at Gresham’s School in Norfolk. After undergraduate studies at the University of York, he completed a Master’s degree in Solo Piano and an Artist Diploma in Collaborative Piano at the Royal College of Music, studying with Danny Driver, Simon Lepper, Roger Vignoles, Kathron Sturrock. His studies were generously supported by the Needley Family Scholarship and the Viola Tunnard Trust.