Liz Lane’s music has been performed throughout the UK, Europe and the USA at venues such as the Wales Millennium Centre, Fairfield Hall Croydon, Peacock Theatre (London), Capitol Theatre Horsham, Colston Hall Bristol, Royal Albert Hall and Barcelona Cathedral, and by performers including the tenor Andrew Kennedy, Carducci Quartet, London Children’s Ballet, Wells Cathedral Voluntary Choir, Hexham Abbey Choir and Chinook Winds (Seattle).  Recent premieres include Somewhere Unknown by the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera at a gala concert to celebrate Cardiff University’s 125th anniversary and a commissioned work, Linear Lines, for solo horn, performed at a series of lecture-recitals in the USA by the horn player Marlene Ford.

She regularly works with the composer and explorer David Fanshawe; published collaborations include the published brass band arrangement of The Lord’s Prayer from his African Sanctus; the recently completed orchestral version which will be premiered by the Inspiration Choir and Northern Sinfonia at The Sage Gateshead in March 2010.  Liz has also arranged music for cult Bristol band The Blue Aeroplanes’ albums Life Model and Friendloverplane2. 

Liz started writing music at an early age and received widespread media coverage as a child composer, including an ITV television documentary And I Write Music and a televised performance of her Sinfonietta for Strings by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.  She took her undergraduate degree at Cardiff University and achieved a postgraduate diploma in composition from the Royal College of Music, subsequently pursuing a varied musical career which combined composing, arranging, teaching and performing professionally on the horn and percussion.  

Liz was awarded her PhD in Composition at Cardiff University in December 2009, where she is currently an Associate Lecturer.  She also lectures at the University of the West of England, where she devised and delivers a double module, Music Composition and Performance, and is an Associate Lecturer with the Open University.

Current and future projects include: a public lecture about her work entitled Musical Industry, Inspiration and Innovation: A Composer’s Perspective in April 2010; computer inputting, and editing for publication, the original manuscripts of songs by the composer Muriel Herbert (1897-1984, recently recorded by the Ailish Tynan, James Gilchrist and David Owen Norris on Linn Records); and a commissioned work for the harpsichord maker and performer Colin Booth.