Rolf Hind

Rolf Hind (born 1964 in London) is a British pianist and composer. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and at the University of California, Los Angeles. Biography Rolf Hind was born in London to a German mother and an English father. He studied piano with Kendall Taylor, John Barstow, John Constable, Johana Harris and composition with Edwin Roxburgh and Jeremy Dale Roberts. Hind teaches at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (piano, composition, Research associate) and at the Royal Academy of Music, as well as Brunel University, Dartington Summer School and in conservatories throughout Europe and Asia. His tours have taken him from Carnegie Hall to The Proms and he has played at many major festivals and stages internationally. A specialist in 20th- and 21st-century repertoire, Hind has worked with many composers, and been dedicatee of new works. Such collaborations include John Adams, Unsuk Chin, Tan Dun, Helmut Lachenmann, Per Nørgård, Poul Ruders, Thomas Ades, George Benjamin, Olivier Messiaen, György Ligeti, György Kurtág, Michael Finnissy, James Dillon, James MacMillan, Julius Eastman and Rebecca Saunders. He has made many appearances as soloist; with the Dan