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Ian Holtham
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Associate Professor Ian Holtham is Head of Keyboard and Head of Practical Studies at the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne. He had specialist musical training from an early age and travelled to Europe on scholarship in his teens where he was based for over a decade. He is a student of Géza Anda, Geoffrey Parsons, Enrique Barenboim and Peter Feuchtwanger whose assistant he was for nearly five years in London. He also studied composition and conducting at the Guildhall School of Music. He made his South Bank and Wigmore Hall débuts before he was twenty and has performed throughout Australia, England, Ireland, Switzerland, Italy, France, Austria, Hungary, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and Korea. As concerto soloist he has performed with a number of distinguished conductors including Henry Krips, Geoffrey Simon, Patrick Thomas and Spiros Rantos.

Ian Holtham has broadcast regularly with the ABC since the late seventies, and is a constant performer in Australia and overseas, returning frequently to Europe and Asia for concert and masterclass tours. He has a vast and varied repertoire which, excluding works for solo piano, contains well over forty piano concertos. He holds honours degrees in Music from Durham University, and in Arts from Melbourne University where he also gained his PhD, and has an extensive array of international performance qualifications.

As well as his busy schedule of performing and teaching, he is the Chair of the Council of Directors of the Australian Music Examinations Board in Victoria, is the Federal Chair of the Piano Specialist Panel, and has adjudicated innumerable awards in Australia and abroad. Ian Holtham has a strong commitment to Australian music and a number of prominent Australian composers have written works for him. He has published a book on piano technique and has released a number of solo CDs, including the complete Chopin Etudes, to considerable critical acclaim.
 
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