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Radio 3 Presenter: Iain Burnside

Iain Burnside

Iain Burnside combines life behind the microphone with life on the piano stool - changing the balance from week to week. He followed a music degree at Oxford University with more specific piano study at the Royal Academy of Music and the Chopin Academy in Warsaw. Working as a freelance pianist, he has come to specialise in the song repertoire. He is, however, allergic to the word 'accompanist', which he tries to avoid wherever possible!

It was this vocal background which led to his first faltering steps in broadcasting, as a nervous but smartly dressed presenter of Cardiff Singer of the World. Radio 3 signed him up shortly after, establishing him as the regular presenter of Voices. Iain now juggles his roles as pianist and presenter, with his lively new Sunday morning show Iain Burnside.

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