Born in Los Angeles, Le Van began playing the piano at age five and the violin at age seven. Early on he was in the class of Earle Voorhies whose own professor was Alexander Siloti, one of Liszt's favorite pupils. He made his debut in his native city at age sixteen with a program of Brahms' sonatas. After studies at the University of Southern California with Daniel Pollack, he entered the masterclass of Rudolf Buchbinder in Basel, Switzerland, and received a Fulbright grant to further his training with Professor Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hanover.

In the last decade, Eric Le Van has regularly performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout North America and Europe-including Paris, Berlin, Munich, London, NewYork, Los Angeles and Chicago-and recently played at the Library of Congress and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He has been invited to important festivals such as the Fêtes Romantiques in Nohant, the Bayreuth Festival, the Franz Liszt Festival in Weimar, the Bach Festival in Boulder, the Louisiana International Piano Series, the Athenaeum Chamber Concert Series as well as the International Beethoven Festival in Bonn.

He is frequently heard on the radio (CBC-Canada, WCLV-Cleveland, KMTZ-Los Angeles, KKHI-San Francisco, Radio France, France Musique, DRS2-Bern, Bayerischer Rundfunk, WDR3-Cologne) and television (France 3, Sudwest, 3 SAT Europe).

His recording of Brahms' Sonatas no.1 & no.3 has been acclaimed internationally as was his release of Liszt's Complete Works with cellist Guido Schiefen for Arte Nova (BMG), awarded best chamber music disc for the year 2000 in the Neue Musik Zeitung. New releases include Brahms' Sonata no.2, Ballades and Scherzo as well as Scriabin's Complete Mazurkas with Music & Arts.

His chamber music partners include Cellist Guido Schifen, Violinists Axel Strauss and Michaela Paetsch as well as Geraldine Walther of the Takacs Quartet.

In great demand as a master teacher both in Europe and the United States, he has given public courses on interpretation in numerous universities and music institutes.

Le Van has resided for several years in France where he is Artistic Director of the International Franz Liszt Festival.

His first extensive interview appeared in Fanfare with Bernard Jacobson.

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