About

Pian Vane is a jazz pianist and composer whose work centers on sound as a narrative medium. Her work explores memory, perception, and emotional resonance, treating music not as a fixed form, but as a temporal experience.

Rooted in jazz, her musical language draws from modern jazz, groove-based structures, cinematic textures, and subtle electronic elements. Genre functions as a vocabulary rather than a category, serving the conceptual and emotional core of each work.

Rather than emphasizing virtuosity, her work focuses on presence, space, and transformation. Compositions unfold through tension, stillness, and gradual change, allowing meaning to emerge over time.

Inspired by artists such as Brad Mehldau, Hiromi Uehara, Aaron Parks, Enrico Pieranunzi, Nik Bärtsch and John Scofield, she is particularly interested in how melody, rhythm, and silence can function as carriers of meaning.

Beyond sound, Pian’s artistic thinking is deeply connected to visual space and atmosphere. She is drawn to interdisciplinary collaborations where music interacts with painters, animators, and film makers, allowing performances to become immersive temporal experiences rather than isolated concerts.

Her practice remains open, shaped by collaboration, attentiveness, and an ongoing inquiry into honesty in sound.

Selected Highlights

• Performances at international jazz festivals including JazzOut Limburg, Les Temps Mêlés, as well as an aftershow performance for Enrico Pieranunzi Trio
• Live improvised performance for Fungal Landscapes, in collaboration with Wim van Egmond, presented at IMC12 (Maastricht)