Alison Gill is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, specialising as an accompanist and répétiteur. Whilst at the RAM she made her Wigmore Hall debut, filmed for Channel 4, and was chosen as one of ten pianists to perform alongside Michael Nyman and Gavin Bryars in Satie’s 19 hour work Vexations, taking place in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern.

Alison has now returned to the North of England and is highly sought after as an accompanist across the region, working regularly with soloists and ensembles that include the Chorus of the Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Jervaulx Singers and has accompanied choral masterclasses with John Rutter, Bob Chilcott, Will Todd and Eriks Esenvalds. Alison also works as an accompanist in residence for Leeds Conservatoire, Durham University, Northern Ballet, Samling Artists and for the BBC Proms held at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music.  Alison was invited to give the modern premiere of Charles Stanford’s piano concerto in B flat, performed at Ushaw Hall in Durham with the Orchestra Cipriani.  Other concerto performances have included the Gershwin Piano Concerto in F with Huddersfield Symphony Orchestra, both Shostakovich piano concertos and Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Mowbray Orchestra,  Edward Gregson’s Concertante for Piano and Brass Band with Fishburn Band, Roderick William’s transcription of the Ravel Piano Concerto in G for piano and 8 voices with the Jervaulx Singers and in 2024 performances of Grieg’s Concerto in A Minor and Mozart’s Concerto no.21 in Durham Cathedral.