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Simon Lane
Collaborative pianist
Simon Lane is in great demand as a chamber musician, performing regularly at major venues and festivals across the UK.
Performances have taken him to Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, St. John's Smith Square, St. George's Bristol and Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. He has also performed in Aberystwyth Musicfest and the King's Lynn, Ryedale, Brighton, Deal and Honiton festivals.
During his time at the RNCM, where he studied with Mark Ray and Dina Parakhina, he performed the Schumann Piano Concerto and the Beethoven 'Triple' Concerto as a result of winning the RNCM concerto award. He was also awarded the PPRNCM, their highest performance award.
In 2005 Simon and violinist Katie Stillman were selected for the Tillett Trust Young Artists' Platform, resulting in their debut at London's Wigmore Hall as well as other concerts throughout the UK, and, in 2006, they received the Worshipful Company of Musicians' 'Maisie Lewis Award'
In January 2007 Simon was invited to take part in the Park Lane Group New Year Series, giving recitals with both Katie Stillman and mezzo-soprano Karina Lucas. Other awards include the Sir Henry Richardson Scholarship administered by the Musicians' Benevolent Fund, a Countess of Munster Education Award and more recently both the Elena Gerhardt Lieder prize and the Brenda Webb Award (part of the Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks singing prize) at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Simon's most recent studies were at the Royal Academy with Michael Dussek and Julius Drake on a full tuition scholarship funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
Collaborations with other musicians have included performances with the Navarra Quartet and clarinettist David Campbell, who also performed Messiaen's 'Quartet for the End of Time' with Simon's piano trio, the Kokoschka Trio. Simon also took part in the 'Nono: Fragments of Venice' festival at the Royal Academy of Music (in conjunction with the South Bank Centre) in 2007.
Dating back to his days as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, Simon has a keen interest in working with singers and has recently set up a series of song concerts at St. Mary-le-Bow Church, London, in which he performs with Allan Clayton, Iestyn Davies, Karina Lucas, Martene Grimson, George Humphreys and David Butt-Philip.
Other recent or upcoming engagements include St. John's Smith Square, St. George's Bristol and Wigmore Hall with Katie Stillman, and performances with cellists Nathaniel Boyd, Guy Johnston, Reinoud Ford and Rowena Calvert, violinist Naoko Miyamoto and the Navarra Quartet.
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