Happy playing in almost any genre, James Longford’s sensitive and scintillating musicality at the piano, coupled with technical assurance, has endeared him to audiences all over the world, in such venues as Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Barbican, St David's Hall, Snape Maltings, Queen’s Hall Edinburgh, London Palladium, Saffron Hall, Brighton Pavilion, Latitude, Cologne Schauspiel, Oslo Opera House, Weimar Hochschule für Musik, Venice Biennale, Milan Fondazione Cariplo, at festivals in Anghiari, Avignon and Tel Aviv, at the BBC Proms and on many an ocean as a featured classical artist for Cunard Line and Saga Cruises.
In 2012 he founded the Galos Piano Trio, whose recent recording of works by Clara Schumann and her contemporaries Agnes Zimmermann and Louise Lebeau is available on all streaming platforms.

As a répétiteur he has worked with the Royal Opera House & Royal Ballet, English National Opera, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, Opera North, Kokoro, Synergy Vocals, Polyphony, Gabrieli Consort, Grange Festival, Royal Marines School of Music, London Concert Choir, Birmingham Opera Company, Garsington Opera, Bampton Classical Opera, Bregenzer Festspiele and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Closer to home, he is a passionate educator and works with many local community choirs, festivals and education projects on the Isle of Wight.

James won the Tagore Gold Medal during his studies at the Royal College of Music. He also trained at the Britten-Pears School, St.Martin-in-the-Fields and Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, and was selected as a Steinway Artist in 2014.

“a very special, very beautiful sound…”
Jury, International Schubert Competition