Liana Storey

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, where her teachers included Marika Slater, James Willshire, and Graeme McNaught.

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In her early career, 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.

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In the last six years Liana has given performances of multiple concertos with various orchestras, in addition to solo and chamber concerts. As a recent winner of the RNCM Concerto Competition, she will perform in the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester this upcoming June.

She has attended several piano courses worldwide, including the Lake Como Summer Piano School in Italy, Chetham’s International Piano Summer School in Manchester, the Talent Music Summer Course in Brescia - Italy, the Óbidos International Piano Masterclasses Course in Portugal, and the Ticino Musica Festival in Lugano, Switzerland. She has performed in masterclasses with pianists such as Stanislav Ioudenitch, William Grant Nabore, Roberto Plano, Martin Roscoe, Peter Donohoe, Erik T. Tawaststjerna, 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. Having completed her Undergraduate & Masters degrees, she is now doing her Postgraduate Diploma studying with Graham Scott, Ben Frith & Karin Greenhead.

During her time at the RNCM, Liana has taken part in a wide variety of 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.