Piers Lane
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Piers Lane is an Australian classical pianist.
Piers has a flourishing international career, which has taken him to over forty countries. Highlights in the past two years have included concerto performances at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center in New York with the American Symphony under Leon Botstein; Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with The Queensland Orchestra, which received a Limelight Award for Best Orchestral Concert of 2007; concerto appearances with the City of Birmingham Symphony, London Philharmonic, Hallé and Ulster Orchestras; a solo recital in Birmingham’s Symphony Hall for the BBC; a three-recital series called Metamorphoses and an all-Chopin recital at the Wigmore Hall in London; and appearances in many major piano festivals in the United States, the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia.
Engagements in Australia and New Zealand during 2008 include a second national tour with Cheryl Barker[1] and Peter Coleman-Wright[2] for Musica Viva[3], concerto performances in Christchurch and Dunedin and solo recitals in Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Newcastle, Noosa and Perth. Five times soloist at the BBC Proms in London’s Royal Albert Hall, Piers Lane’s concerto repertoire exceeds 75 works. He has played with all ABC and BBC Orchestras, the Aarhus, City of Birmingham, Bournemouth, Gothenburg & New Zealand Symphony Orchestras, the Hallé, Philharmonia, Kanazawa Ensemble and City of London Sinfonia, the London, Royal Liverpool and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras and the Ochestre National de France among many others. Piers Lane is also in great demand as a chamber music player. Recent collaborations have included a Musica Viva tour of Australia with violist/composer Brett Dean and performances with Anne Sofie von Otter[4] and Bengt Forsberg[5] in Malmö, Stockholm and the Bergen Festival. He continues his long-standing partnership with British violinist Tasmin Little[6] in UK recital tours.
Piers Lane has an extensive discography on the Hyperion label and has also recorded for EMI, Decca, BMG, Lyrita and Unicorn-Khanchana. Recent releases from Hyperion[7] include concertos by Alnaes and Sinding, a Delius song disc with Yvonne Kenny[8] and a recording of Bloch’s Piano Quintets with the Goldner String Quartet[9], which was an Editor’s Choice in the December 2007 Gramophone magazine and BBC Music Magazine’s Record of the Month for February 2008. Piers Lane is a well-known voice on BBC Radio 3, having written and presented over 100 programmes. In 1994 he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music, where he has been a professor of piano since 1989. In 2007 he received an Honorary Doctorate from Griffith University.
