Manchester-born Roderick Chadwick is a pianist, writer and teacher who has been critically acclaimed by The Sunday Times.

As a performer he is active mainly as a chamber musician, and has worked extensively with Peter Sheppard Skærved and the Kreutzer Quartet (recent releases include Finnissy Quintets on the Métier label), Mark Knoop and Newton Armstrong—Stockhausen’s Mantra for Hathut records won plaudits—and the ensembles Plus-Minus and CHROMA. In recent times he has performed at the Bergen International Festival, Wigmore Hall and the inaugural London Contemporary Music Festival, and before that at venues across Europe and East Asia such as the Ultima, Borealis and Huddersfield festivals, the Auditorium du Louvre, nyMusikk Oslo, and Tokyo Opera City.

He has written about the music of Olivier Messiaen and Gloria Coates and was recently named reader in music at the Royal Academy of Music, where he has taught since 1999.