BIOGRAPHY

Lindy Tennent-Brown is a pianist, vocal coach, and music director.

Following postgraduate study at the Royal Northern College of Music and a Junior Fellowship at the Royal College of Music, Lindy based a successful freelance career in London for more than two decades. During this time she was engaged as music staff by The Royal Ballet and Opera, English National Opera, Aldeburgh Productions, and Scottish Opera among others. For several years she worked on the development of new opera through ROH2, and was the founding music director of EXPOSURE, a series of new opera scratch-nights in the Linbury Theatre.

Lindy has played keyboards for more than twenty West End music theatre shows, also covering workshops, auditions, and cast-change rehearsals. She was the rehearsal pianist for the 25th anniversary of Les Misérables at the O2 (2010), and worked on the revival of London Road at the National Theatre (2025). In 2015 Lindy was music director for the critically-acclaimed BAKKHAI at the Almeida Theatre, starring Ben Wishaw, Bertie Carvel, and Kevin Harvey.

In 2019-20, Lindy was Head of Music for New Zealand Opera. During 2021-24 she was a Professional Teaching Fellow at The University of Auckland’s School of Music, where she coached advanced singers, programmed and led annual opera scenes, and mentored pianists.

Lindy returned to London in late 2024. She teaches piano at St Dunstan’s College in south-east London, and maintains a busy vocal coaching studio whose clients are employed in opera and music theatre internationally.

Photo credit: Andi Crown Photography