Glenn Riddle studied piano at the University of Melbourne with Ronald Farren-Price before undertaking post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Music, London, with Peter Wallfisch and at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna with Paul Badura-Skoda. During this time, he was the recipient of two Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Scholarships, an Ian Potter Foundation Scholarship, the Clark Scholarship, and a prestigious Horlock Scholarship. He was also winner of the National Kawai and Yamaha competitions. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Keyboard at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (Australia), a Research Associate at the University of Waikato (New Zealand) and Visiting Professor at the Nanjing University of Arts (China).

Glenn is an Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) Federal Examiner, a member of the AMEB International Examining Panel, Senior Music Critic for leading online cultural magazine Classic Melbourne, a member of the National Committee of the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference, and a Board Director of the Victorian Music Teachers Association. He is also Vice-President and Artistic Advisor to the Camberwell Music Society.

One of Australia’s leading piano pedagogues, his students have been prize-winners in international competitions throughout Europe, Asia and the USA. They have also been major prizewinners in every significant competition in Australia, including winning both first and second prizes in the 2022 Lev Vlassenko Competition in Brisbane. His students have performed concertos with the Queensland, Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, Orchestra Victoria, and internationally with the Russian State Academic Symphony Orchestra (Moscow), the Tevrichiskiy Symphony Orchestra (St Petersburg), the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra (USA), the Salzburg Chamber Soloists, Les Solistes de Neuchâtel (Geneva), the Helsinki Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Ningbo Symphony Orchestra (China), the Gimpo Philharmonic Orchestra (South Korea), the Morocco Philharmonic, Thailand Philharmonic, Hanoi Philharmonic, Jakarta Concert Orchestras and the Singapore Sinfonietta.

Glenn has worked extensively throughout China, South-East Asia, USA, Australia and New Zealand presenting recitals, pedagogy workshops, masterclasses, examining and adjudicating. He has also been a member of international competition juries in the United States, Greece, Israel, Indonesia, and Thailand. 

Glenn Riddle’s publications include editing 8 volumes of piano music for the AMEB, as well as co-editing 4 volumes of Baroque Keyboard works for the AMEB. He is about to embark on editing a series of piano publications with Australian music publisher Mondschein Studio Publications. Glenn has also been General Editor for IPPEC in Taiwan, selecting over 200 works for publication and use in their national piano examinations. Published articles include Improving Sight-reading Skills in Advanced Pianists; a hybrid approach; (Psychology of Music), co-authored with Katie Zhukov. He has also contributed articles to Hoardings: Exceptional, exotic and commonplace (Grainger Museum), to Australian Pianists: a cross-section of performers offers insights into aspects of pianism; (Australian Scholarly Publishing), Clavier Magazine (The AMEB in Australia), and the Piano Teacher (on Teaching Gifted Students). He has also had numerous papers published in the proceedings of the Australian Piano Pedagogy Conference – the most recent being on the Music of Percy Grainger for Children.

Glenn has recorded 15 CDs for labels such as ABC Classics, Move Records, Tall Poppies and Hal Leonard, and is also featured on the internationally acclaimed DVD Classical Destinations III, performing the works of Percy Grainger on the composer’s own piano held at the Grainger Museum. His latest CD features the chamber music for piano and strings by Australian composer Christine McCombe. Glenn continues to perform as both chamber musician, concerto soloist and in recital.