Belle James
March 6, 2008 by TCG Nordica
Filed under Artists, stage artist
Pianist Belle James, USA
Belle was born and raised in Malaysia Belle studied classical piano since the age of three. Her father is an opera tenor singer and owns a music school, and her mother is a pianist. Belle started accompanying since the age of 16 and began teaching at age 18. In 1986, Belle studied piano in London for a year under Anthony Lindsay of Trinity College and John Bigg of the Royal Academy of Music. In 1987, she toured twice as the pianist of the Continental Singers all over Europe and the United States.
In 1988, she received a full scholarship to study piano in the United States, and graduated in 1995 with a Bachelors of Music Degree in Piano Performance with Honors at Northern Arizona University.
Ever since then she has been an accompanist for choirs, singers, instrumentalist, ballets, and has taught for 20 years.
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