Annabel Thwaite studied Solo Piano with Joan Havill and Accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she gained both her BMus and Masters’ degree and won several prizes including the Piano, Lutine and  English Song. She also won an English Speaking Union scholarship to study at the Ravel Académie, St Jean-de-Luz from where she assisted Robin Bowman at the Nice Académie, and then studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse, Paris, with Henri Barda and Isabelle Dubuis. As an Accompanist she won a scholarship to attend the Lied et Mélodie course at the Fondation de Royaumont, France with Reuben Lifschitz and in 2007 at the Franz Schubert Institute

As a Soloist and Chamber musician, Annabel has performed in many countries, including Canada, France, Italy, Sweden and South Africa and in England at the Birmingham Symphony Hall and at the Imperial College, London. As an Accompanist, she has performed at the Barbican Hall, Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, St. John’s Smith Square, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh and the Oxford Lieder Festival.

Annabel is the official accompanist to the London Welsh Male Voice Choir with whom she has performed at the Festival of Male Choirs at the Royal Albert Hall and in the great Cathedrals of England, including Canterbury (with Rhys Meirion),  Salisbury and Wells and has toured Slovenia with them. In 2007 she was the accompanist at the Young Welsh Singer of the Year Competition. She has recorded for Universal Records with Nicky Spence, the Scottish Tenor, whose album was nominated for a classical Brit award and is regularly played on Classic FM.

Her extensive teaching and accompanying experience includes work at the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute, Junior Trinity College of Music and Francis Holland School. She was awarded the Sir Henry Richardson Prize for accompanists two years running and won the 2004 Piano Prize at the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Competition. In 2005 and 2007 she won the Gold Medal Prize at the Barbican Hall and the Piano Prize at the Richard Tauber competition at the Wigmore Hall. Future engagements include the Festival of Male Choirs at the Royal Albert Hall in 2008 and a song recital in Germany.