Blog
Rok Palčič – Pianist & Masterclass Organiser
"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 it...
Kate Kerrigan – Author
"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...
Eduardo Reck Miranda – Composer
"I was intrigued by Mozart Sonatas and remixed them using the language of electro-acoustic music combined with piano. I’m a keen pianist, instead of playing the music myself I had the idea of using recordings of other people playing, and manipulate their...
Maria Larrain – Osteopath
"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 would play...
Rosemary Chrimes – Olympic Athlete, Landlady & Pianist
“I originally come from the Scottish Borders. I remember my aunt encouraged me to start when I was nine or ten. I wasn’t the slightest bit interested. I was always out doing active, sporty things, and then five minutes before the lesson I’d do a little bit of...
Ana Silvera – Singer & Composer
"I start with an image in my mind and then I make some words and a melody, the image is like a little seed which then grows. I’ve always been very driven by words so I will create the song around the words. They are my words that come to me from an image. For...
Roger Stedman – Doctor
“I learnt piano as a child, did some of the grades at school and then I had a very long period of not developing my piano playing at all. I am a Consultant Anaesthetist with special interest in Intensive Care Medicine; the way we work is a week at a time on...
Roland Perrin – Composer & Pianist
“We started off in the States, moved around quite a lot from New York and Mexico and Florida ending up in England via Scotland. I remember as one of seven children playing a game in the living room in Glasgow where we had a grand piano and the game was based on the...
Craig Stallwood – Keyboard Player
"I was playing on a cruise ship in Alaska and we were getting towards the end of the set. The ocean was completely beautiful and very, very calm; the water was like marshmallow. We were playing some nice quiet jazz ballads and all of the sudden, without any sort of...
An Interview with Mikael Pettersson – Concert Pianist
"I chose to record my CD in this particular hall because I’ve played many piano concerts there, I’m familiar with the piano and I’m very fond of it. It’s in a big hall with big acoustics, it makes a lovely sound in that particular hall, the sound is rich and...
Natsumi Ikenaga – Pianist
“My family all live in Tokyo so fortunately none of them were affected by the tsunami, but it was a huge shock. Many concert halls were totally destroyed and it’s been very difficult. The Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, the big orchestra in that region, has been...
Dilara Aydin-Corbett – Pianist
"Initially I was working on an electric keyboard, but by the time I got to Grade V, I realised that I needed to work on an acoustic piano. Because we only had a few pianos in my secondary school, I remember the rush at lunchtime or after school to get to the...