Liao Fan – piano

The Programme

Liao Fan – piano

Piano Sonata, K331
I. Andante grazioso
II. Menuetto
III. Alla turca

Nocturnes, Op 9
1. in B♭ minor
2. in E♭ major

Fantaisie-Impromptu in C♯ minor

The Artist

Liao Fan is a pianist from Beijing, China, who is a Trinity Laban graduate and a current student at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Liao received an excellent music education from a young age, studying privately with professors from Central Conservatory of Music and its attached middle school in Beijing for several years. At the age of nine, Liao was admitted to the China National Radio Children’s Choir and participated in many recordings and public performances with them. In 2018, he joined the Imperial 9 Symphony Orchestra in Beijing, rehearsing and performing a public concert with the orchestra in the Forbidden City Concert Hall.

In 2019, he was admitted to Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and studied with Mikhail Kazakevich. As an undergraduate, he performed at a variety of venues including St Michael’s Church Highgate, All Saints Church Blackheath, St George’s Church Beckenham, Waltham Abbey Church, The Royal London Hospital, Old Royal Naval College Chapel and St Mary of Charity Church Faversham, receiving warm responses from local residents. He also performed chamber music concerts in historic buildings in Central Beijing in summer 2024.

From September 2024, he has continued his piano studies at the Royal Northern College of Music with Murray McLachlan. In the past year he has performed at such venues as St Michael’s Church Sittingbourne, RNCM Concert Hall, Alderley Edge Methodist Church, Penshurst Church of St John the Baptist in Tonbridge and has also returned to All Saints Church Blackheath and The Royal London Hospital in London. Liao also performed at the 2025 Chinese New Year Concert at Cross Street Chapel in Manchester.