Jill Lawson

Jill Lawson, a Portuguese-American pianist born in Mexico in 1974, grew up in Belgium, beginning her studies at the age of 8 in Antwerp. She obtained a postgraduate degree in piano in 2000 and completed her master's degree in chamber music at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore (USA, 2004) as a disciple of Leon Fleisher. Among other achievements, she won second prize at the Vianna da Motta International Piano Competition, was a finalist in the American Pianists Association's Classical Fellowship Awards, and won fourth prize at the International Schubert Competition in Dortmund. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has given recitals and performed with orchestras in Europe, America, and Asia. Together with her brother Eliot, a violinist, she forms the Lawson & Lawson Duo. Since 2022, she has been part of the Cascais MP Quartet. Fluent in five languages, Jill nevertheless prefers music as a form of emotional expression.