Jane Stanley is a UK-based, Australian-born composer. She specialises in composing for live performers.
Her music has been performed, recorded and broadcast throughout the world and featured at festivals including Tanglewood, ISCM World Music Days, and Gaudeamus Music Week.
She received her PhD from the University of Sydney and from 2004 to 2005 she was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University.
In 2015 her piece Pentimenti for piano duo represented Australia at ISCM World Music Days in Wrocław, performed by the Lutoslawski Piano Duo. A highlight of 2017 was the premiere in Sydney of her Piano Sonata, commissioned by Bernadette Harvey and supported by a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts.
Jane is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, and as part of this role she engages in practice research as a composer. She is founder of the Scottish Young Composers Mentoring Project, a year-long programme that provides university students with experience in mentoring secondary school-age people in composition. She is a founding member of the Young Academy of Scotland, a represented composer at the Australian Music Centre, and her music is also published by Composers Edition and the Scottish Music Centre.