Kyle Nash-Baker is a pianist/composer from Birmingham, based in London. He first
started to teach himself to play piano aged 12 and began to write compositions after the colours
he saw whilst playing them - a condition known as Synaesthesia. At the age of 15 Kyle’s
composition ‘Red’ reached number 1 in the classical Itunes download charts and held this
position for over 3 weeks. After hearing his music Vivienne Westwood asked him to write a suite
of works to perform at her Fashion show at Paris fashion week. During 2013 Kyle toured
Budapest, Switzerland and was featured in the Cartagena festival in Colombia with the violinist
Geza Hosszu-Legocky and his string ensemble sharing concerts with such artists as Sergei
Babayan and the Borodin Quartet.
Kyle was awarded 1st Prize at the 2022 Trinity Laban Soloist Competition, 1st Prize in Stratford
and East London Piano Competition including the Felix Marr prize, 2nd prize in the Christopher
Duke international Piano Competition. He has been a finalist in The Alfred Kitchin Schumann
competition, The John Longmire Beethoven competition, The Glass Sellers Beethoven
Competition and The Guildhall Romantic Prize. He has been a semi-finalist in the The
Tunbridge Wells Young Artists International Competition, and at The Livorno International Piano
Competition.
Kyle completed his Masters Degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Charles
Owen as a Leverhulme Trust Scholar in 2022. And, completed his Artist Diploma at Trinity
Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance with Sergio De Simone as a Gladys Bratton scholar in
2023.
Kyle recently made his debut at Cadogan Hall as a soloist with the Trinity Laban Symphony
Orchestra with Gerry Cornelius in 2023 playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3.
He has played in Spain twice this year and is looking forward to launching a new recital project
focusing on early lesser known and unfinished works by Franz Schubert - named ‘Franz
Schubert - the unfinished and the unheard’.