MEET THE ARTIST

Kate Whitley, composer

May 31, 2023 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

My definition of success as a musician is being happy!

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Emma Johnson, clarinettist

May 11, 2023 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

My primary school offered me the chance to learn the clarinet when I was nine and I loved it from the word go.

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Roxanna Panufnik, composer

November 30, 2022 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

The first thing I focus on is harmony – for me this is the most moving aspect of music

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Angela Hewitt, pianist

August 19, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Everything you experience in life goes into your music and your interpretations. Talking with friends, reading books, going to the theatre, travelling, seeing a movie, reading the news, experiencing the tragedy of this awful pandemic….all of that ends up in what you produce later on at the piano.

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Susan Bullock, soprano

July 13, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Success to me is going on to a stage knowing that I am totally prepared: I have put the work in and come off at the end of the performance knowing that I did my absolute best on that day.

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Elizabeth Llewellyn, soprano

May 24, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

If my audience is moved, entertained, challenged, provoked, consoled, informed, inspired – or any combination of the above – then I feel I have been successful in doing my job.

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Alison Balsom, trumpeter

January 28, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Keep listening to live music and going to concerts to remind you why this is such a brilliant, powerful, relevant, important, beautiful thing in a human’s life and why you should keep on searching for those memorable, spine tingling occurrences.

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Rowan Pierce, soprano

November 11, 2020 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Our work is in skills and craftmanship and that takes time and every day you make music is a progression to a day when it will feel easier or different. It’s a life-long process, and it will be ever changing and that’s ok.

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Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn player

October 29, 2020 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Making something sound exactly how I want it to.

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Bertrand Chamayou, pianist

October 11, 2020 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

It’s a long quest and a process of building. You need to build your repertoire, your personality… to try to learn who you are as an artist. That all takes time. Search inside yourself, as most of what you have to say is already inside you from very early on.

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Nitin Sawhney – musician, composer and producer

September 21, 2020 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

I create a new vocabulary for each project I work on. I don’t believe in stamping my personality all over what is required for a film’s score to compliment the narrative. However, with my own albums I tend to follow my intuition which leads me into a lot of sounds that I love.

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Michael Finnissy, composer

July 4, 2020 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Music itself is intensely important to me, and I want to try and share it – intensely

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Litsa Tunnah, violinist

June 6, 2023 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Fill your life with moments that inspire you musically

Alexi Kenney, violinist

June 5, 2023 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Never lose your joy. Search for your own unique truth and live it fully. Have real goals for yourself, but keep music as your space to escape into your dreams.

Sarah Frances Jenkins, composer & clarinettist

June 4, 2023 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

I am driven to create striking, atmospheric and immersive sound worlds, which take the listener
on a journey. I love exploring rich, layered, kaleidoscopic harmonies that ebb and flow and
mutate.