SPANSWICK, Melanie

Melanie Spanswick is a multi-award-winning music educator, author, and composer. She graduated from the Royal College of Music in London with a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance Studies.

As a pianist, Melanie has performed worldwide and has given recitals as a soloist, chamber musician, and accompanist at numerous music festivals and concert halls. Broadcasts include appearances on Classic FM, BBC Radio, CBC Radio, and Swedish and Spanish television, and performance venues include Wigmore Hall, St. John’s Smith Square, South Bank Centre in London, St. George’s Chapel in Windsor, and the CBSO Centre and Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Abroad, Melanie has toured Canada several times and has also performed in Russia, at Tchaikovsky’s house in Klin, near Moscow, and at a series of recitals around the Netherlands.

As an educator, Melanie has examined and adjudicated widely and has given master classes, workshops and presentations throughout the UK and abroad, touring the Far East, Italy, Germany, USA, Dubai, Oman and Australia. She is currently a piano faculty member at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Eton College. Melanie has written and edited piano books for the international market to critical acclaim. Her work is published by some of the world’s leading music publishers and she has authored over 30 books. A regular contributor to Pianist Magazine, her four-book piano course, Play it again: PIANO (Schott Music), has become an international best-selling series. In 2022, the three-book series Women Composers – A Graded Anthology for Piano (Schott) won a Presto Music Award for best ‘New Series of The Year.’

As a composer, Melanie has written works for students and professionals, and her music has been performed and recorded around the world: it is regularly featured at music festivals and on music examination syllabus. Her set of elementary pieces, Ghostly Piano Tales (Schott), won the ‘Best Printed Contemporary Sheet Music Prize’ at The Art of Piano Education Awards 2025.