Brieley Cutting is an Australian pianist and piano teacher based in Sydney who performs art music from historical through to new music. She is a prize winning soloist and passionate about diverse and collaborative music adventures. 

 

Brieley is director of DeClassified Music (est. 2011), holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Griffith University, is a Churchill Fellow, was National Keyboard Winner of the ABC Young Performers Awards, and graduated from the Royal College of Music in London and Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne. She has performed in Australia from Hamer Hall in Melbourne to Longreach in outback Queensland, as well as in concert venues in London, Europe and New Zealand.

 

Some recent performance highlights include a collaboration with Mark Oliveiro (composer/electronics) for the show Electro Lieder  which was nominated for Best in Music at the Sydney Fringe Festival 2023, a chamber music performance with the UNSW Collegium Musicum Choir at the Sir John Clancy Auditorium in Sydney, performing for the Australian Piano Duo Festival in Brisbane at the University of Queensland to raise funds for the  Pamela Page & Max Olding Prize for Duo Pianists, and a recital at Tempo Rubato in Melbourne with cellist Christopher Pidcock which showcased music by Rita Strohl, Nadia Boulanger and Galina Ustvolskaya.