John lill biography

British pianist

For the Australian cricketer, see John Lill (cricketer).

John Richard LillCBE (born 17 March 1944 in London) is a British classical pianist.

Biography

Lill studied at the Royal College of Music with Angus Morrison, and with Wilhelm Kempff.

His talent emerged at an early age, he gave his first piano recital at the age of nine and by the age of 14 had all of the Piano Sonatas of Beethoven committed to memory. At age 18, he performed Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto under Sir Adrian Boult followed then by a much-acclaimed 1963 London debut playing Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.

5 at the Royal Festival Hall.

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In 1970 he won the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition (ex-aequo with Vladimir Krainev). It was said by Sidney Harrison that "he (John Lill) simply devours Beethoven. I set him work for the week – he does that and more."^[1]

Lill has made a number of recordings, including the complete piano concertos of Beethoven,