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Throughout the course of an international career as pianist, orchestral soloist, chamber player and teacher, Edmund Battersby earned the highest praise from audiences, critics and illustrious colleagues alike. American Record Guide claimed that his landmark recordings of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, on modern and period instruments, put him, “in the company of Brendel, Serkin, Schnabel and Pollini.” His many CDs for Musical Heritage Society, Naxos, Koch, and others over the years, were noted impressively: the 1992 Grammy Short list for Goyescas of Granados among them. Battersby’s  digital re-release of Mendelssohn’s “ Songs Without Words” (complete) on the Schoodic Sound label, was a “Sleeper of the Year” for WNCN Magazine in 1982, the artery for, what was then, the premiere Classical radio station of New York City. The 2012 Schoodic Sound digital re-release of his Musical Heritage Society recording, “The Early Romantic Piano”, performed on a Rodney Regier replica of an 1824 instrument by Conrad Graf, was warmly received by Peter Burwasser, reviewer for Fanfare Magazine: in a, “digital re-mastering by Schoodic Sound …Battersby delivers with great poetry and control of color”. Schoodic Sound released Selections from Iberia by Isaac Albeniz in 2013.  All Schoodic Sound releases are currently available on iTunes, Spotify and amazon.com.

Battersby gained the admiration of Messiaen, Crumb, Rochberg, Elliott Schwartz and Bolcom in live, recorded and often first performance directed by the composers. He has played recitals worldwide, most notably in London, New York and Washington, DC, and performed with conductors such as Nicholas McGegan, Gerard Schwarz and Gunther Schuller, with orchestras ranging from Indianapolis to Pittsburgh. A frequent guest at the Library of Congress in the nation’s capital, Battersby appeared on their series with the Vermeer Quartet and elsewhere with the Tokyo Quartet and the Orion Quartet. Festivals featuring him in solo or ensemble capacity include Mostly Mozart, Santa Fe, Seattle and La Jolla, Bay Chamber Festival, Bowdoin College and Kneisel Hall (Maine),La Gesse and Jacobin (Toulouse) and Festival of the Sound (Canada).  He gave master classes at the Royal Irish Academy of Music  in Dublin, the Hochschule fur Musik in Leipzig, Princeton, Rutgers and Duke, USC Irvine and Hartt College of Music as well as Indiana University Bloomington where he was a member of the artist-faculty of the Jacobs School of Music from 1995 until his death in 2016.