PIERS LANE recital

Saturday 5 April 3pm

Hausmusik Concert - "Serenata" 5 Keoghs Road, Kangaroo Valley, NSW 2577

Programme:
Schubert: Sonata in D, D850
Chopin:
All the music from the ballet Les Sylphides:
Polonaise in A Op.40 No.1
Nocturne in F Op.15 No.1
Mazurka in C# minor Op.50 No.3
Nocturne in Ab Op.32 No.2
Waltz in Gb Op.70 No.1
Mazurka in D Op.33 No.2
Mazurka in C Op.67 No.3
Tarantella in Ab Op.43
Prelude in A Op.28 No.7
Waltz in C#minor Op.64 No. 2
Grand Valse Brillante in Eb Op.18

ABOUT PIERS LANE:

London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane has a worldwide reputation as an engaging, searching and highly versatile performer, at home equally in solo, chamber and concerto repertoire. Five times soloist at the BBC Proms, his wide-ranging concerto repertoire exceeds one hundred works and has led to engagements with many of the world’s great orchestras and performing in over forty countries.

Lane was appointed Artistic Director of the Sydney International Piano Competition and is responsible for initiatives like the 2021 Online Piano Competition, the Piano Lovers’ Competition for amateur Australian pianists and Composing the Future, a competition to help Australian composers and pianists during covid times.

He is a member of the recently formed chamber group Amici della Musica. In recent seasons Piers Lane performed three concerti at Carnegie Hall, including the New York premiere of Ferdinand Ries’s Piano Concerto No.8 for the debut of The Orchestra Now (TŌN), and world premieres of Carl Vine’s second Piano Concerto and Double Piano Concerto (with Kathryn Stott) Implacable Gifts, both written for him.

Piers Lane was Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music from 2007 to 2017, and from 2006 to 2013 directed the annual Myra Hess Day at the National Gallery in London. He has written and presented over 100 programmes for BBC Radio 3, including the 54-part series The Piano and has premiered works by such composers as Brett Dean, Colin Matthews, Richard Mills, Carl Vine and Malcolm Williamson. In the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished services to the arts.

In 1994 he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music, where he was a professor from 1989 to 2007. Piers holds Honorary Doctorates from two Australian Universities: Griffith and James Cook. In 2022 he was presented with the coveted Sir Bernard Heinz Award for services to music in Australia.