Described by the New York Concert Review as a “bold…young pianist with promise,” Australian artist Lachlan Glen was born in Camden, NSW in 1989 and has garnered awards for both piano performance and composition in competitions around the world, including the 6th Prize and Audience Choice Award at the Southern Highlands International Piano Competition 2009 (Bowral, NSW). He has participated in music festivals and performed as soloist with various orchestras in Australia, Europe and the U.S.A., with ensemble performances at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and Alice Tully Hall (Lincoln Center, NYC), and numerous solo performances at Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall (NYC). Masterclasses include those of William Wolfram, Robert Lehrbaumer (Vienna), Martin Canin (Juilliard), Jerome Lowenthal (Juilliard) and Ken Noda (Metropolitan Opera, NYC). Lachlan has performed regularly with the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra, Rutgers Sinfonia, Rutgers Opera Orchestra and the Grammy Award-winning Rutgers University Wind Ensemble, with which ensemble he performed David Gillingham’s Concerto for Piano, Percussion and Orchestra in April, 2011. In his work as an accompanist, rehearsal pianist and vocal coach, he has worked with Australian conductor Kynan Johns and actor/singer Roger Bart (The Producers, Hercules), the American Repertory Ballet and the New Jersey Youth Theatre. During June-July 2011, he worked with Maestro Lorin Maazel preparing productions of Puccini’s La Bohème, Il tabarro and Gianni Schicchi, Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins, de Falla’s El retablo de maese Pedro, Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale, Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and Bizet’s Carmen at the Castleton Festival (2011), VA. A past prize-winner of the City of Sydney, Australian National, Macarthur, St. George and City of Wollongong eisteddfods (Australia), Lachlan commenced his piano studies at the age of 6 with the late Maria Cartwright in Camden, NSW, continuing to study with Heather Bieman (Camden), Marilyn Meier-Kapavale (Camden) and Elizabeth Green (Sydney). Lachlan was awarded the A.Mus.A. and the L.Mus.A. (AMEB) and commenced his tertiary studies at the age of 16 at the University of Southern Queensland in 2006, before transferring to Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ to complete his Bachelor of Music Degree, where he was a student of Min Kwon until his graduation in 2011. Lachlan was recently a winner of Juilliard’s 2011 Honors Recital singer-pianist duo competition, and as such will be performing in recital at Alice Tully Hall, NYC, with tenor Kyle Bielfield in March, 2012. He has also been invited to fill the position of Apprentice Coach at the Chautauqua Opera in June-July 2012, and will be joining the coaching/accompanying staff of the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie in Neumarkt, Germany in August 2012, working alongside Malcolm Martineau, Helmuth Rilling, Edith Wiens, Brian Zeger and Margo Garrett as well as performing live on Bavarian Radio. He has been generously assisted by awards given by the American Australian Association, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and the Golden Key International Honour Society, and is the recipient of the James Dickson Carr Memorial Scholarship (Rutgers University), Edna Mason Scholarship (Rutgers University), Presser Foundation Award (Rutgers University) and Arthur G. Humphrey Memorial Award (Rutgers University). He is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society and the Delta Epsilon Iota Academic Honor Society. Lachlan commenced the M.M. (Collaborative Piano) program at The Juilliard School, NYC in 2011 as a recipient of the William Petschek Piano Scholarship, studying with Brian Zeger, Margo Garrett and Jonathan Feldman. He is pursuing a multi-faceted career as an opera/vocal coach, conductor and solo pianist.