Piers Lane

Piers Lane's international career has taken him to more than forty countries. Born in London, he grew up in Brisbane and holds dual Anglo-Australian nationality. His teachers included his mother Enid Lane, Dr William Lovelock, Dr Nancy Weir, Bela Siki, Kendall Taylor and Yonty Solomon; he also attended masterclasses with Jorge Bolet. He is a professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music and is well known to BBC Radio 3 listeners for his series The Piano which ran to 54 episodes; he also regularly presented BBC Legends.


A mastercraftsman in great demand as a chamber music player, with invitations to the Adam New Zealand, Båstad, Cheltenham, Guildford, Newport, Norfolk & Norwich, Rotorua and Sydney Festivals. Special collaborations include duo recitals with British violinist Tasmin Little and two-piano recitals with Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin, with whom he has performed in London and Montreal. In Spring 2003 Anne Sofie von Otter invited him to perform with Bengt Forsberg and herself in Malmö, Stockholm and the Bergen Festival.

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