Brieley Cutting

Brieley Cutting is an Australian pianist whose career encompasses solo and collaborative performance, pedagogy, event curation, arts promotion, and practice-focused research.

She is dedicated to honouring the traditions of classical music whilst supporting new music and innovative forms of presentation, research, curation, and collaboration. Brieley is known for bringing her trademark energy and refinement to the stage as a performer of solo and collaborative music, fostering talented piano students in regional and cosmopolitan centres in Australia, and being a passionate advocate for classical music, live music performance, and fellow artists. Brieley graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium with First Class Honours aged 18 years and with the top performance prize, the Brisbane Club Award. In the same year she performed Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No.1 with the Queensland Conservatorium Orchestra and was a semi-finalist in the Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition. Brieley continued her studies at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) in Melbourne, completing 4 years in the Performance Program.

Whilst at ANAM, Brieley attended and performed in a Summer Festival in Salzburg and the International Festival Musici Artis in Brussels, and she was twice a winner in the ANAM Concerto Competition.

Brieley was then awarded a Master of Music in Performance from the Queensland Conservatorium, and was supported by a David Paul Landa Scholarship, Tait Memorial Trust Scholarship, and an Australian Music Foundation Award to continue her studies at the Royal College of Music (London), where she graduated with Distinction from the Postgraduate Diploma of Performance course whilst also performing as a soloist and chamber musician in many London venues.

Brieley has performed extensively throughout Australia, as a curator of music and arts events her Declassified Music (2013-15) won a Creative Sparks Award from the Brisbane City Council, was recognised for funding from Arts Queensland and the Australia Council of the Arts, and had events featured in several Queensland Music Festivals. Her career has seen her work with a wide range of ensembles and she continues ongoing musical partnerships with leading musicians.

She has been piano accompanist at the University of Queensland and lecturer at the University of New England (Armidale). Brieley has worked as a piano teacher for 20 years, teaching in Australia and overseas.

Brieley currently teaches from her home studio and the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney.