Cameron Richardson-Eames is an award-winning British pianist and tenor, based in London and New York. He is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge University, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and a former US-UK Fulbright Scholar at The Juilliard School where he studied under Dr Brian Zeger, Margo Garrett, and JJ Penna, and held the Irene Diamond Fellowship, the Samuel Sanders Award for collaborative piano, and the Arthur Gold, Robert Fizdale, and George H Gangwere Scholarships.
At Cambridge he was a Choral Scholar and graduated with high First Class Honours, a Senior Academic Scholarship, Isaac Newton Scholarship, Research Scholarship, the Edith Leigh Memorial Prize for piano, as well as the inaugural postgraduate scholarship for voice, before going on to serve three years on the Cambridge University Music Faculty, teaching Dissertation Studies and Keyboard Harmony. At the Royal Academy of Music, he was awarded the Major Von Someron Godfrey Award for accompanists, Dame Ruth Railton Prize for chamber music, Katie Thomas Memorial Award for outstanding achievement, and the honorary Diploma of the Royal Academy of Music for outstanding postgraduate performance. He won the Accompanist Prizes in the Dame Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition, and the Sidney Sussex Lieder Competition.
Cameron trained as a joint first-study singer and has performed with the Grammy-nominated groups Polyphony (Stephen Layton, voted second-best choir in the world by Gramophone magazine) and The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, with whom he recorded fourteen CDs for the Hyperion record label, winning many international awards such as BBC Music Magazine Record of the Year, and Gramophone Magazine Album of the Year. He appears as a tenor soloist on the Christmas album ‘Yulefest’ (Hyperion), about which the Los Angeles Times wrote ‘if you’re not touched by tenor Cameron Richardson-Eames, you have Grinch in your soul’. He has also worked as a session singer at Abbey Road Studios, appearing on film soundtracks.
He studied voice with Professor Susan McCulloch (Guildhall School of Music and Drama), and teaches voice with private practices in New York and Los Angeles, with current students appearing in many Broadway shows (including Matilda, Frozen, School of Rock, Kinky Boots, The Ferryman), world tours (Kinky Boots, Fun Home), television series (Billions), commercials (Nissan, JetBlue, RiteAid, Hilton Hotels) and feature films (Avatar).
Cameron is a Fellow of Trinity College London in piano performance, adjunct faculty at New York University, a staff pianist at The Juilliard School and has worked as a vocal coach to the Juilliard School pre-college division.