Edmund Battersby

Edmund Battersby (November 10, 1949 - March 25, 2016) was a classical pianist and was a Professor at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University.

Edmund Battersby graduated from the Juilliard School with distinction. His teachers included Barbara Holmquest, Sascha Gorodnitzki and Artur Balsam. Battersby was a member of the piano faculty at Montclair State University before joining the faculty at the Jacobs School of Music He was married to Christian Claessens, dancer, teacher and choreographer and had two children, Justine Olivia Battersby and Julian Henry Battersby by a previous marriage to Lucy Guerlac.

In 2006, the American Record Guide wrote that his recordings of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, on modern and period instruments, put him "in the company of Brendel, Serkin, Schnabel, and Pollini.". This recording was also reviewed in the Irish Times and the Toronto Star described it as, "one of those must-get albums for anyone interested in Beethoven or piano music".

Battersby's many recordings for Musical Heritage Society, Naxos, Koch, and the Schoodic Sound label have been widely reviewed and recognized: the 1992 Grammy Short list for Goyescas of Granados among them.

In 2013, Battersby re-released previously unavailable archival Musical Heritage Society recordings of Felix Mendelssohn's, Songs Without Words(complete), Franz Schubert's, Shorter Works for Piano and The Early Romantic Piano on the Schoodic Sound digital label which was described as "...quite simply a beautiful recording that should be heard by everyone." This was performed on a replica of an 1824 instrument by Conrad Graf crafted by Rodney Regier of Freeport, Maine. Edmund Battersby's From Iberia was released by Schoodic Sound in 2014.

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