by Noah | Oct 11, 2012 | Composer, People, Pianists
“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 down to practice I have a very good idea of what it is I’ll be working at. I’m good at managing my time...
by Noah | Oct 10, 2012 | People, Pianists
“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 taken a year to set up; the musicians are from Denmark, France, Hungary, Germany, Slovakia and the UK, it was...
by Noah | Oct 8, 2012 | People, Pianists
“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 Physics degrees I worked at the European Space Agency in Darmstadt for 36 years where I was responsible for a...
by Noah | Aug 6, 2012 | People, Pianists
“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 case and you see pictures of family, friends, loved ones. They cherish their instrument, polish it, always handle...
by Noah | Jul 20, 2012 | Pianists
“My brother Tom was a pianist living in London and we’d become estranged. He had problems and was drinking heavily. I live in Ireland and found this wonderful old 1920’s house by the sea; the woman who sold it lived next door. My whole family were due to get...
by Noah | Jul 3, 2012 | Pianists
“It was the 1970’s, I was seven and my sister was five and we had to flee from Chile; we lived in Santiago. My granny used to play the Tango on the piano when my Dad was very young, Tango was very modern then and that’s what everyone was doing. She...
