Australian pianist Liam Viney is a soloist, collaborative artist and teacher. First prize-winner of the Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition, Liam has performed in Australia, the U.S., Europe and Israel. He has appeared as soloist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Youth Orchestra, the New Century Players and the CalArts Chamber Orchestra in concertos ranging from those of Mozart and Beethoven, to Prokofiev and Ligeti. He has given solo recitals and chamber music performances in concert series and festivals such as the the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, (premiering the chamber ensemble version Rautavaara's Clarinet Concerto with Richard Stolzman), The Dartington International Summer School, (performing the British premiere of Matthew Hindson's "Plastic Jubilation"), the "New Paths" festival of New York, Melbourne's "Next Wave" festival, the Brisbane Festival, the "Keynote", "Celebrations", and "Kawai" series of Australia, and the "Tyalgum Festival". He has also recorded solo radio programs for ABC FM radio's "Young Australia" program and 4MBS radio station.

Liam's involvement with new music has led to performances with groups such as Australia's "Elision Ensemble", and the U.S.-based "New Century Players" and "Inauthentica". He was soloist with CalArts' "New Century Players" in Berio's "Points on the Curve to Find" at REDCAT, and has also been featured on several of L.A.'s Monday Evening Concerts. Other recent performances include a duo appearance with violinist Roberto Cani in the UCLA Live series at Royce Hall, Los Angeles, with the great ballerina Nina Ananiashvili and the Georgian State Ballet. He also made a guest appearance with Vicki Ray in Piano Spheres' 2005 season, to positive acclaim in the Los Angeles Times. Other recent performances include a duo appearance with violinist Roberto Cani in the UCLA Live series at Royce Hall, Los Angeles, with the great ballerina Nina Ananiashvili and the Georgian State Ballet. He also made a guest appearance with Vicki Ray in Piano Spheres' 2005 season, to positive acclaim in the Los Angeles Times.

Liam has won competitions in both Australia and the U.S.. Apart from First Prize in the 2001 Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition, he also won secondary prizes there such as the "People's Choice Prize" and prizes for "Best performance of an Australian Work", and "Best Performance of a Classical Sonata". The Courier Mail's review of the competition's final stage with orchestra described his playing as having "maturity and flair". Other competitions Liam has won include First Prize in the Yamaha Australian Youth Piano Competition, (the prize for which was a grand piano), a coveted "Queen's Trust" award, the City of Sydney Piano Scholarship, the Queensland Piano Competition on two occasions, and the Connecticut Young Artists Piano Competition.

Liam has formed a two-piano team with pianist Anna Grinberg, and together they explore classics of the two-piano literature, as well as commission new works. Since 2006, they have commissioned four pieces, including a major work by Ezra Laderman, President of the Academy of Arts and Letters; "Interior Landscapes", which they premiered at Steinway Hall in 2006. They have also commissioned composers include Shaun Naidoo and Marc Lowenstein. Critic Ivan Katz said of their duo playing at the Horowitz Series, Yale University: "I cannot imagine a finer performance, as this one had everything, illuminating every bar of the music…The audience went wild.."

Liam earned a Doctorate in piano performance from Yale University's School of Music, where his teacher was Boris Berman. In 2006 Liam shared a recital program of Prokofiev piano sonatas with Berman in Israel, and subsequently co-edited Berman's book "Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas" published by Yale University Press. He also received a Master of Music degree from Yale. Liam is on the keyboard faculty at the California Institute of the Arts.