Pianist Lisa Lanza has been performing as a solo artist and collaborator for over 20 years on the Olympic Peninsula and in the greater Seattle Area. She has studied with internationally renowned pianists Maria João Pires and Paul Roberts at The Guildhall School of Theater and Arts in London. She holds a Masters of Music in Piano Performance and Accompanying from The University of Redlands.
As a guest artist she has performed on the Music at St. Leonard’s concert series, Hythe, England; Young Concert Artists Competition, at Weill Hall, New York; the Olympic Music Festival, Quilcene, Wash.; Sierra Opera Institute’s chamber music series, Mammoth, Calif.; and the Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, Wash.
As an opera and musical theater accompanist, she has worked with companies from Orange County, Calif., to the Seattle Opera, from Issaquah’s Village Theater to Key City Players in Port Townsend.
She holds 1st and 2nd prize medals from the Greater Spokane Music & Allied Arts Festival for her interpretations of Beethoven and Chopin. As a performing member of the Ladies Musical Club in Seattle, she performs regularly at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Public Library and the Frye Museum.
Ms. Lanza has soloed with the Port Townsend Orchestra in October 2010 and May 2003.