Biography

Award-winning concert pianist and composer Caroline Tyler has performed at many prestigious venues including the Barbican Hall in London, the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham and the Martinu Concert Hall in Prague.

Since the pandemic hit, Caroline focused on new projects: writing more piano music including a commission for the Piano Exam Pieces published by ABRSM for 2023-24, and featuring as the first 'door' in an online Advent Calendar performing her virtuosic arrangement of Silent Night, shared in BBC Music Magazine, with her arrangement of Away in a Manger also featured. 

Caroline's Nocturne in B Minor for solo piano was published in 2023 by EVC Music following a global call to scores. She was also prizewinner in the Corra Sound Call For Scores 2023 with her choral piece '8 Months Old' in the final 7 shortlisted from 88 entries, with performances of both pieces, and other original music and song, throughout 2024. Caroline is a member of composer collective, New Music Brighton. 

During the pandemic Caroline started Composify, a new musical gift service which takes the letters of a name or message and transforms them into notes, creating unique personalised compositions as gifts, which are also miniature pieces of music in their own right. Composify piano pieces can be streamed on Spotify, Soundcloud and all major music platforms, and Composify has its own shop on Etsy. 

Caroline is a solo artist with Piha International, and alumna of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Concordia Foundation of London. 

Caroline has given concerts and masterclasses in Istanbul, performed at various UK music societies and for various universities' International Concert Series. For Concordia she performed in London at Painters' Hall for the Lord Mayor of London and guests, and gave solo performances at St Martin-In-The-Fields and St James' Piccadilly. Caroline has also regularly given concerts in partnership with Ensemble Reza, as accompanist, recitalist and concerto soloist in Rachmaninoff Concerto no 2,  Chopin Concerto no 1 and Mozart Concerto no 22. She has collaborated with soprano Alexandra Saunders, who performs the vocal music for the Royal Shakespeare Company. 

In music education, Caroline is a music adjudicator with the British & International Federation of Festivals, teaches her own private students at her studio Caroline Tyler Piano School and is a music examiner for ABRSM. 

During her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Caroline represented the Guildhall in the intercollegiate Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize, competing against candidates from the Royal College, Royal Academy and Royal Northern music colleges, Oxford and Cambridge universities. As a result of winning first prize, she gave a number of solo recitals in cities throughout the UK and has since been invited back to many of these venues. 

Caroline made her concerto debut in 2006, playing her favourite Beethoven Concerto, no. 1 in C major, with the Mid-Sussex Sinfonia. In 2007 Caroline won the national Christopher Duke Piano Recital Competition, and was invited to play at several different venues by music promoters who heard her performance. In June of the same year, she won the international Anglo-Czechoslovak Trust Competition, leading to concerts in Prague at the British Embassy and Prague Academy of Performing Arts. She also competed in the Norah Sande Award piano competition, winning the top prize of £3,000 and further concert engagements. The following years saw Caroline performing at venues in London and around the UK including the Bishopsgate Institute and the auditorium of the Victoria Rooms. Caroline has performed various concerts for Cunard Line, including three lecture-recitals aboard Queen Mary II in the 1,094-seat Royal Court Theatre.