John Lill - Piano

INTERNATIONAL CONCERT PIANIST

JOHN LILL’S concert career spans over fifty years.  He gave his first piano recital when only nine.  At eighteen he performed Rachmaninov’s 3rd  Piano Concert under Sir Adrian Boult, followed by his London debut with Beethoven’s Emperor Piano Concerto in the Royal Festival Hall. His success was reflected in many prestigious international prizes and awards, the most coveted being the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1970. Unanimously described as the leading British pianist of his generation, John Lill’s career has taken him to over fifty countries, both as a recitalist and as a soloist with the world’s greatest orchestras. John Lill’s extensive repertoire includes more than seventy concertos, and he is acclaimed in particular as a leading interpreter of Beethoven, whose complete sonata cycle he has performed on several occasions in the UK, USA and Japan. In Britain he has given over thirty BBC Promenade concerts and regularly tours and appears with all the major symphony orchestras. In the 2010-11 season he returns to perform with the RPO, English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra as well as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

John Lill has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, ASV, and Pickwick Records. His most recent recording projects have been the 60th birthday release of piano works by Schumann on the Classics for Pleasure.

John Lill has been awarded eight Honorary Doctorates from British Universities as well as several Fellowships from the leading music colleges and academies.  He lives in London and was awarded the OBE in 1977 and the CBE for his services to music in the 2005 New Year’s Honours List.

John Lill appears by arrangement with Askonas Holt Limited.