Performing widely as a soloist, accompanist and conductor, James Sherlock regularly appears at festivals throughout the UK and abroad. In the past season these have included the Edinburgh Fringe, Leeds International, Harrogate, Ryedale, Deal, Chelsea Schubert, Cambridge Summer Music, Music Festivals at Sea, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St John's Smith Square and the Barbican Hall, alongside visits to Japan, South Africa and Brazil.

Winner of the Royal Overseas League Piano Competition, BBC Fame Academy and Gold Medallist at the Marcello Galanti Competition, James studied at Trinity College Cambridge and with Joan Havill and Pamela Lidiard at the Guildhall School of Music. In 2011 he was selected by Making Music and Park Lane Group for their Young Artist Programmes. He is an active exponent of new music, having given first performances of works by Huw Watkins, Julian Anderson, Francis Pott, Peter Maxwell Davies and Richard Causton.