Hyperion Records

London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane has a flourishing international career, which has taken him to more than forty countries. In the past few years, his engagements have included a sold-out performance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall, further concerto performances at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, recitals at Wigmore Hall for the London Pianoforte Series and five concerts for the Opening Week of the Melbourne Recital Centre. Five times soloist at the BBC Proms in London’s Royal Albert Hall, Piers Lane’s wide-ranging repertoire of more than eighty concertos has led to engagements with many great orchestras and conductors. Festival engagements have included, among many others, Aldeburgh, Bard, Bergen, Cheltenham, La Roque d’Anthéron, Newport, Prague Spring, Ruhr Klavierfestival, Schloss vor Husum, and the Chopin festivals in Warsaw, Duszniki-Zdroj, Majorca and Paris.

In addition to his solo career, Piers Lane is Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and much in demand as a collaborative artist. He continues his long-standing partnership with British violinist Tasmin Little and has embarked on a new collaboration with clarinettist Michael Collins. Tours in recent years have included performances with singers Cheryl Barker, Peter Coleman-Wright, Yvonne Kenny, Markus Schafer, and Anne Sofie von Otter with Bengt Forsberg; violist/composer Brett Dean; the Australian, Doric, Goldner, Medici, New Zealand, Prazak and RTÉ Vanbrugh String Quartets; and pianists Marc-André Hamelin, Hamish Milne, Kathryn Stott and Kathron Sturrock. He is also Artistic Director of the annual Myra Hess Day at the National Gallery in London.

Piers Lane has written and presented over 100 programmes for BBC Radio 3, including the popular 54-part series, The Piano.