‘Write as much music as you can and to always challenge your own hearing and your own writing’
Author: The Cross-Eyed Pianist
Frances Wilson is a pianist, writer, music and arts reviewer, music PR, and blogger on classical music and pianism under the pen name 'The Cross-Eyed Pianist'
Sophie Pacini, pianist
‘Staying true to the essence of what moved me to make music in the first place’
Paul Berkowitz, pianist
‘Inspiration cannot be manufactured’
Nikolai Lugansky, pianist
‘There’s no substitute for practice, but what truly nourishes my inspiration is simply listening to music.’
Andrey Gugnin, pianist
‘That rising flow which appears (not always, sadly), when it feels as though it’s not you performing the music but music itself being performed by you — this is a truly astonishing feeling’
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