Natalie Burch is a Gramophone Records nominated song pianist and curator. She regularly presents recitals at festivals across the country and is co-founder of the Devon Song Festival which returned in 2026.

Natalie is an experienced programmer, researcher and producer, recently contributing to BBC Radio 3’s Record view, writing a chapter on the songs of Elizabeth Maconchy the Cambridge University Press compendium on the composers’ life, acting as Associate Artistic Director of the Oxford International Song Festival in 2025, and receiving widespread praise for her debut album ‘Our Indifferent Century’ on Delphian Records.

Much in demand as a song specialist, Natalie regularly collaborates with a number of award-winning artists. Recent and future projects include a Gramophone Records nominated disk of the complete Britten Canticles with James Way, Lotte Betts-Dean, Hugh Cutting and Ross Ramgobin, performances with Kitty Whately at Leeds Song and ‘Schwanengesang’ with Roderick Williams at the Oxford International Song Festival, and the release of ‘Quiet Music’ on Delphian Records with Bethany Horak-Hallett.

Past performance highlights include her debut recital at the Aldeburgh Festival with Lotte Betts-Dean and James Way, Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer and Stephen Hough’s Other Love Songs at Wigmore Hall, , performances at the Sage Gateshead, Blackheath Halls, the Little Venice Festival, International Lied Festival Zeist and the Oxford Lieder Festival as well as a recording with tenor Robert Murray for BBC Radio 3’s Private Passions and a concert tour with RPS nominated soprano/composer Héloïse Werner.

Natalie won the accompaniment prize at the 2015 Maureen Lehane Awards at Wigmore Hall, was a finalist alongside Song Prize winner Helen Charlston (2020) and 2nd Prize winner James Way (2017) at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards, is an alumnus of the Britten-Pears, Leeds Lieder and International Lied Festival Zeist Young Artist Programme and is a Samling Artist.

Natalie studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where she was a fellow and gained her Masters with distinction under Eugene Asti and Andrew West. She studied at Chetham’s School of Music and in 2014 graduated with first class honors in musicology from King’s College London with piano at the Royal Academy of Music.