Australian pianist Liam Viney is active as a soloist, collaborative artist and teacher. Having performed widely in Australia, he is now based in Los Angeles where he serves on the faculty of the California Institute of the Arts, teaching piano, chamber music and music theory.

Liam has appeared as soloist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Youth Orchestra, the Hartford Symphony, and the CalArts Chamber Orchestra in concertos ranging from those of Mozart to Ligeti. He has given solo recitals in the U.S. and Australia in concert series and festivals including the New Paths festival of New York, the Keynote, Celebrations, and Kawai series, and the Tyalgum Festival. He also recorded solo programs for ABC FM radio's Young Australia program and 4MBS radio station.

Liam's affinity for new music has led to performances with groups such as Australia's Elision Ensemble, the U.S.-based Inauthentica, and the California E.A.R Unit. He was featured in collaboration with pianist Michael Kieran Harvey in performances of Stockhausen's Mantra at Melbourne's Next Wave festival, and the Brisbane Festival. Liam also had the honour of giving the Australian premiere of Peter Sculthorpe's Simori at the opening ceremony of the Queensland Conservatorium's new campus in 1998.

Liam has won competitions in both Australia and the U.S., including First Prize in the Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition, where he also won 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". Liam also won First Prize in the Yamaha Australian Youth Piano Competition, (the prize for which was a grand piano), the City of Sydney Piano Scholarship, the Queensland Piano Competition on two occasions, and the Connecticut Young Artists Piano Competition.

Liam earned a Masters of Music and a Master of Musical Arts at Yale University, where he studied with Boris Berman. During his academic career he won the prize for Most Outstanding Pianist and was awarded the position of Teaching Fellow, instructing Yale undergraduates in piano and music theory. Liam's other teachers have included Alison Waddell, Stephen Savage and Natasha Vlassenko at the Queensland Conservatorium which he attended on a Griffith University Scholarship, earning First-Class Honours and the University Medal.