His London debut in 1967 prompted such headlines as "Perfection of John Bingham ('Daily Telegraph'). The accolades have continued ever since. In February 1997 he celebrated the 30th anniversary of his debut to a packed London Wigmore Hall and the ecstatic appreciation of both the audience and the press.

John Bingham's many fine recordings include Schubert-Liszt Transcriptions ('Gramophone' Critics choice), piano quintets with the Medici String Quartet, Liszt's Malediction for piano and orchestra (which won him a 'Deutsche Schallplaten Prize'), Beethoven Concertos, Variations and Sonatas, Chopin piano works including the complete Etudes and Schumann's Fantasy and Etudes Symphoniques. The latter recording was on the short-list of recommendations by America's 'Fanfare' magazine in 1991, along with the versions of Horowitz and Richter.

Bingham was the first British pianist to be awarded the Hungarian Government's Liszt Medal of Honour for outstanding performances of the composer's music.

Besides his many and varied recordings for BBC Radio 3 and his work with British orchestras, John Bingham has traveled far and wide internationally, touring Europe, Japan, Russia, the USA and Australia - where he gave three recitals at the Sydney Festival illustrating a history of piano music. His vast repertoire, encompassing works from the Baroque to the present day includes over 50 piano concertos.

He has played concertos with many internationally famous conductors and treasures memories of performances with Sir John Barbirolli, Sir John Pritchard, Meredith Davies and Klaus Tennstedt.

For five years, until he resigned in 1995, he was Head of Keyboard Studies at Trinity College of Music, London. Years before, while he was a student of Myers Foggin at the Royal Academy of Music, John Bingham's playing created a sensation at the very first International 'Clara Haskil' Competition in Lucerne. He decided to continue his studies at the Conservatorio 'Santa Cecilia' in Rome (at this time he also worked with Nadia Boulanger), Berlin's famed Hochschule fur Musik and finally at the Moscow Conservatoire, where he spent two years in the elite class of Stanislav Neuhaus - his first and only British student.

Bingham is above all an immense pianist, the pianist of our time perhaps, the pianist of the future! On the platform he strikingly resembles the young King Edward. Whether playing Mozart, Beethoven or Schumann the artist brings to each composer a warmth of expression, virtuosity and a melodic spontaneity which seems to be inimitable – at all times one recalls Rubinstein.