Simon Lane leads a diverse musical life, performing with both instrumentalists and singers at major venues and festivals across the UK and abroad.
In 2008 he completed a postgraduate course at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied with Michael Dussek and Julius Drake, and was awarded the Helen Eames Prize on graduation. Prior to this he studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Mark Ray and Dina Parakhina. In his early life he was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral.
Simon was the recipient of the Accompanists’ Prize in the 2009 Royal Overseas League Music Competition, and has received many other awards including the Sir Henry Richardson Scholarship administered by the MBF, a Countess of Munster Education Award, and both the Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize and the Brenda Webb Award at the Royal Academy of Music. Together with regular duo partners Simon has been selected for the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ ‘Maisie Lewis Award’, the Park Lane Group New Year Series at the Purcell Room, the Tillett Trust Young Artists’ Platform on three separate occasions and a Tunnell Trust Award. Simon and cellist Philip Higham have also recently been awarded a Kirckman Concerts Society Award which will see them perform at London’s Wigmore Hall on 17th December 2011.
Recent venues include St. George’s Bristol, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall and the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, and he has collaborated with artists such as Guy Johnston, Allan Clayton, Iestyn Davies and the Navarra String Quartet. Festival appearances include the Bachfest Leipzig, King’s Lynn, Newbury, Brighton, Leeds Lieder, Edinburgh Fringe, Ryedale, Lichfield, Deal, Chester and Lake District Summer Music Festivals. As well as being in great demand as a chamber musician, he has in recent seasons performed concerti by Schumann, Beethoven and Grieg as well as Beethoven’s ‘Triple’ Concerto.
Future engagements include appearances with artists including Guy Johnston, Philip Higham, Jack Liebeck, Katherine Manley, Katie Stillman, Caroline Macphie and Peter Harvey. 2011 season will also see the release of a recording with Karina Lucas and Rebecca Jones as well as a disc with Philip Higham on the Sonimage Classics label.
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