Liana Storey
Pianist
BIOGRAPHY
Japanese-British pianist Liana Storey was born in Kansas City, USA in 2002 to a family of musicians. She began playing the piano at the age of four and studied with Marina Sultanova at the International Center for Music at Park University, Missouri, where she was given regular opportunities to perform from a young age.
After moving from Kansas City to Glasgow in 2010, she studied at the Junior department of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, formerly RSAMD, where her teachers included Marika Slater, James Willshire, and Graeme McNaught.
Liana passed her ABRSM Grade 8 piano exam at the age of 12 and gained the highest mark for piano in Glasgow, receiving the W. Lindsey Lamb Memorial Bursary Award for Pianoforte. She won fourth prize in the Moray piano competition in Elgin in 2013, first prize at the Young Pianist of the North International Piano Competition in 2014, and in 2018 she was a finalist in the James Waterhouse Piano Competition and won second prize in the Junior Intercollegiate Beethoven Piano Competition. She has also won numerous piano categories at the Glasgow Music Festival.
In the last five years she has given performances of Beethoven’s first Piano Concerto, Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C minor (K491), and Saint-Saens’ 2nd Piano Concerto with various orchestras.
She has attended several piano courses worldwide, including the Lake Como Summer Piano School in Italy (following a successful audition), Chetham’s International Piano Summer School in Manchester, the Talent Music Summer Course in Brescia - Italy, and most recently, the Óbidos International Piano Masterclasses Course in Portugal. She has performed in masterclasses to several well-respected pianists such as Stanislav Ioudenitch, William Grant Nabore, Boris Berman, Artur Pizarro, James Giles, Jun Kanno, Ilja Scheps, and Ben Frith.
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In 2020, she moved to Manchester to study with Dina Parakhina at the Royal Northern College of Music. She is now in her 1st year of her Masters studying with Graham Scott, supported by the Ann Driver Award, Ann Gerrard Bursaries, and Oglesby Charitable Trust.
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During her time at the RNCM, Liana has taken part in many projects such as Michael Torke's 'Flint' for two pianos, saxophone quartet, cello and bass; Leonard Bernstein's Mass; and John Psathas' 'Voices at the End' for 6 pianos.