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Ronald Stein: Sketches from the 2016 ‘Around the Globe Piano Music Festival’ winners concert
Sketches from Ronald Stein, a talented sketcher who attends our concert series monthly.
Rhinegold Live with Katya Apekisheva and Charles Owen
Markson Pianos would like to introduce the Bosendorfer 280 VC (Vienna Concert.) Recently unwrapped at the Conway Hall with Charles Owen & Katya Apekisheva’s mid-week recital at the Rhinegold Live series. The recital programme comprised Poulenc’s Sonata for Piano...
SHALOSH TRIO (‘Markson Pianos Jazz Night’)
Thursday 26th May 2016 7:00pm - 11:00pm Tickets £10.00 As part of a bi-monthly collaboration with ‘Markson Pianos’ https://www.marksonpianos.com supplier of our wonderful grand piano, we showcase the best jazz pianists in an intimate club setting. Tonight we present...
Karl Ferre – Musician
"My grandmother was born in 1898 and I remember her bottle green piano. When she was sixty-two years old she moved to the 26th floor of a tower block. The building was new; it was one of those towers put up in the 1960’s. It was in Edmonton, I was a young boy at...
The Yamaha Disklavier Enspire
I was given the opportunity to experience the Disklavier Enspire with the European launch at this years 2016 Musik Messe. Here are a few key points to give you an idea of the huge leap Yamaha have made: Welcomes an app that lets you seamlessly control the piano from...
Birdy performs for Sports Relief on our Yamaha CFX Concert Grand
A beautiful performance from Birdy for the 2016 Sports Relief. Our Yamaha CFX is available for hire and more information is available here: https://www.marksonpianos.com/product/yamaha-cfx-concert-grand/ 'The nine-foot CFX is a full size concert grand piano...
Ronald Stein – sketches from the concert series
There is a Gentleman who goes by the name of Ronald Stein, who over the past few years has been attending the Markson Pianos concert series to sketch some of our artists. With a life long passion for music and art, Ronald has captured numerous musicians over the years...
Rhinegold live – a new piano partnership
Rhinegold LIVE is delighted to announce a new piano partnership with Bösendorfer and Markson Pianos. From 2016 onwards, the Rhinegold LIVE stage will be graced with a Bösendorfer 280 full-size concert grand piano, kindly supplied from Markson Piano’s hire fleet and in...
The New Bösendorfer 280 VC Vienna Concert Grand Piano – A Real Game Changer
On a recent trip to Baden Baden, Germany, Julian and Simon Markson were invited along with other European dealers for a first glimpse at the new Bösendorfer 280 Vienna concert grand. With 5 years in development and as many different prototypes, the aim was to maintain...
Lawrence Lewis: Director and Label Distributor
"I met James Brawn, who performs at Markson Pianos Concert Series, through his record label MSR Classics which I’ve been looking after for two or three years. It was actually quite a fluke how we met because initially I noticed the label was advertising a three...
Ella Xunhuan Zhou: Concert Pianist
“Too few of us have social responsibilities, as musicians and as artists. I think some of us are afraid of taking social responsibility because we think this will affect our work as artists and the effort that we put into music or art. For me, I think...
Robert Stoodley and Linda Ang ‘Piano A Deux’
LA Ours is a unique journey as we met on a dating website to begin with, nothing to do with music! RS It took about three weeks of emailing to find out whether she was a violinist, a cellist or a flautist. It turned out that she was a pianist. LA I was certainly not...