by Noah Markson | Jun 25, 2013 | Concerts & Events, People, Pianists, Pianos
“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 the sun. Mist and fog create a sense of mystery and strangeness. For my recital on the 26th of June in the...
by Noah Markson | Apr 22, 2013 | Composer, Concerts & Events, People, Pianists, Pianos
“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 all types of instruments. I was given a full grant to Chethams school until I was 19. I defected from music for a...
by Noah Markson | Apr 17, 2013 | People
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 sat as a child with wide eyes glued to the music on a very high up velvet piano stool making up stories and...
by Noah Markson | Apr 16, 2013 | Composer, People, Pianists
“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 it from the age of around four. I was teaching myself and basically it was my recluse and my best friend. I started...
by Noah Markson | Apr 12, 2013 | Composer, People, Pianists
“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 London in March 2014. The three pieces, ‘Lucilla’s Beehive’ , ‘Uchti-Tuchti’ and...
by Noah Markson | Dec 24, 2012 | Composer, People, Pianists
“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 why my rhythms are usually never 4/4. Sometimes I integrate Croatian folk themes. I refer to my compositional...
