Background
Rolf Hind was born in London from a German mother and an English father.
Rolf Hind was born in London from a German mother and an English father.
He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and at the University of California, Los Los Angeles He studied piano with Kendall Taylor, John Barstow, John Constable, Johanna Harris and composition with Edwin Roxburgh, Jeremy Dale Roberts.
He teaches at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (piano, composition, Research associate) and at the Royal Academy of Music as well as Brunel University, Dartington Summer School and in conservatories throughout Europe and Asia. His tours have taken him from Carnegie Hall to The Proms as he played on all major international stages and festivals. A specialist of 20th and 21st century repertoire, Rolf Hind has worked with many composers whose works he premiered, such as John Adams, Unsuk Chinese, Tan Dun, Helmut Lachenmann, Per Nørgård, Poul Ruders, Thomas Ades, George Benjamin, Olivier Messiaen, György Ligeti, György Kurtág, Michael Finnissy, James Dillon, James MacMillan and Rebecca Saunders.
He has made numerous appearances with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the South West German Radio Orchestra, the Stockholm Sinfonietta, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and orchestras in the Netherlands, Italy, Ireland, Norway, France, Portugal and the United States under conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Simon Rattle, Leonard Slatkin, Andrew Davis, Markus Stenz, Oliver Knussen and Franz Welser-Möst.