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Praised by the New York Times for his "great flair and virtuosity" and the London Times ("a masterly recital"), John Lenehan's performances and recordings have been acclaimed throughout the world. As a soloist he has regularly appeared with leading British Orchestras and his innovative recital programmes often include film projection and jazz repertoire. In a performing career spanning more than 25 years John Lenehan has also collaborated with many of today's leading instrumentalists and is recognised as one of the leading accompanists and chamber musicians of today. During the past few years he has appeared in major concert halls in Amsterdam, Vienna, Salzburg, New York, Washington, Toronto, Seoul Shanghai and Tokyo.

John Lenehan has made more than fifty CDs. Most recent has been the first in a new association with Sony/BMG - a double CD entitled "The Quiet Room" in which he is featured as soloist, arranger and composer. In the near future Sony are scheduled to release six new CDs featuring piano music by composers as diverse as Philip Glass and Scott Joplin. Other solo recordings include a disc of Erik Satie, John Ireland's piano music and a Gramophone award winning recording for Naxos of Michael Nyman's Piano Concerto with the Ulster Orchestra.

John Lenehan is also active as a composer and has written and arranged for Kennedy, Julian Lloyd Webber, Tasmin Little and Emma Johnson on CD. Recent writing projects include "Keynotes" - four books of piano repertoire published by Faber Music each containing a new Lenehan work and collection of original pieces for flute and piano called "Little Gems" which is published by Schotts.

Recent concerts have included a performance for Prince Charles at Windsor Castle with Sarah Chang and taken him to USA (with Dimitri Sitkovetsky), Turkey (Ephesus Festival as soloist with RPO), Toronto with Rivka Golani, India (soloist with the Uralsk Philharmonic), China with Julian Lloyd Webber and South America with Tasmin Little.

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