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“I’ve taught a huge number of private students from aged 7 up to college age from lower level up to concert level. As they approach college age I always...
Our first festival took place this year in April and it was fantastic. Financially we did far better than we thought we would and everyone seemed...
“Water has always inspired composers and artists – it has texture and colour, it’s prismatic and vibrant, it catches the light and yet it can obscure...
“I was given piano lessons because my brother didn’t practice. This led to my life long love with the piano, and a fascination with playing...
my grandmother had a beautiful ornate walnut piano with ivory keys she cleaned with saucers of milk and rags
I remember the smell and slight stickiness
when I...
“My mother was a piano teacher. We had a beautiful black grand Bluthner in our house when we grew up. We all played on it but I was obsessed with...
“I have always loved the piano and just recently wrote a new cycle for solo piano which will be premiered by the pianist Konstantin Lifschitz in...
“I started composing when I was six years old. I was quite gifted and developed a good craft. My blood is basically Croatian and this explains...
“PA We’ve been together artistically as a piano duo, and as a couple, for almost twenty years. We met very young, at the studio of our...
“I am on a new project. Because of time management issues in recent years due to having a child, I’ve become more project based. When I sit...
“IV We’re really busy, I’m about to fly to Bulgaria to start a cycle of Brahms chamber works being performed between October and April. It’s...
“I’ve been playing the piano almost all my life; I started the grades late so only got up to Grade 7 before I left school. After I got my...
“I got up to Grade VI piano when I was around 16, then I gave it up. I didn’t have the patience to do all the technical training that now, as an adult,...
“I sometimes think about the way musicians look at the piano and about the relationship we pianists have with our instrument. You open a violinist’s...