Roderick Barrand is an honours graduate of Manchester University and Associate of the RNCM, with Diplomas in Teaching Performance and Accompaniment. He studied as a postgraduate with David Lloyd and John Wilson, followed by a year studying Lieder accompaniment with Professor Robert Schollum. He has been on the staff of the RNCM since 1979, and has worked with many teachers in masterclasses and lessons, enjoying a particularly close relationship with Barbara Rowbotham and, until his retirement, with the violinist Yossi Zivoni in the School of Strings.  With the latter he has coached at summer schools in France and Belgium.

Roderick has appeared at Lake District Summer Music in vocal masterclasses and concerts as accompanist, as well as directing from the piano a double bill of Susanna’s Secret and The Telephone in collaboration with the British director Stefan Janski.  Roderick is also accompanist to Sale Choral Society, and has appeared as concerto soloist with conductors Russell Medley, the late Dr James Eastham and Duncan Ward. In the summer of 2012 he gave a song recital with RNCM alumnus, the distinguished bass-baritone Pavlo Hunka, as part of the Ukrainian Art Song Project founded by Pavlo, first at the RNCM and then at Passau in Germany for its ‘European Weeks’ Festival. On his return to Manchester, he accompanied masterclasses given by Gyorg Pauk as part of the 'London Masterclasses in Manchester’ tour at the RNCM.