Lana Bode is an American-British pianist, educator and artist producer, whose performances have been hailed as ‘expertly calibrated’ (BBC Music Magazine) and ‘deeply examined’ (Gramophone). She has shared the stage with singers and instrumentalists of the highest calibre, including Nadine Benjamin, Robert Cohen, Ellie Consta, Jess Dandy, Marcus Farnsworth, Alessandro Fisher, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Emma Halnan, Anna Harvey, Robert Murray, Mark Padmore, Lucy Schaufer and James Turnbull.

An acclaimed and in-demand recitalist, Lana has performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Barbican Hall, Kings Place, Opera Holland Park, Purcell Room, Snape Proms and Wigmore Hall. International engagements have taken her to the USA, France and Germany, and she is also frequently heard on BBC Radio 3.

A champion of new music, Lana has performed the world premieres of works by Terence Allbright (Two Pierrot Songs), Charlotte Bray (Crossing Faultlines, Oxford Lieder Festival), Cevanne Horrocks-Hoppaiyan (Pleasurable Death, HERA), Stuart MacRae (Lovely ter of lovely eye with Lucy Schaufer), Kevin Malone (HerStories Unsung, Vol.2), Zoë Martlew (In the Park with Alessandro Fisher), William Susman (Scatter My Ashes with Amber Evans), Jeremy Thurlow (A London Street in Winter) and Mark-Anthony Turnage (Of Nature’s Light, Opera Holland Park). Lana has also collaborated with composers Richard Barnard, Alison Bauld, Harrison Birtwistle, Odaline de la Martinez, Jonathan Dove, Helen Grime, Sadie Harrison, Libby Larsen, Cecilia McDowall, Errollyn Wallen, Judith Weir and Chen Yi.

As pianist and musical director for operatic productions, Lana has appeared in Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park (Hampstead Garden Opera), Generation (HERA), Scott Eyerly’s My Life Online (Edinburgh Festival) and Warten auf Gertrude (FMK, Berlin).

Lana’s discography includes her highly-acclaimed debut album I and Silence with mezzo-soprano Marta Fontanals-Simmons (Delphian Records), dream.risk.sing: elevating women’s voices with soprano Samantha Crawford (Delphian Records), There are things to be said with the Tailleferre Ensemble (Ulysses Arts), Le Vase Brisé with tenor Thomas Elwin (Voces8 Records), and upcoming release Album Z (NMC Recordings).

Lana holds a BMus with High Distinction from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and an MMus with Distinction from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where she was awarded the coveted Concert Recital Diploma. She was the inaugural winner of the Viola Tunnard Young Artist award, resulting in a year-long residency at Snape Maltings under the mentorship of Roger Vignoles.

Lana is co-founder and Artistic Director of the Virginia Woolf & Music concert project, and a member of faculty at Eltham College and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Lana’s work is supported by Arts Council England, Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Council, Hinrichsen Foundation, Leverhulme Trust, Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust and Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust.