In the end, our goal is to get to the audience’s heart, to influence them in a positive and emotional way.
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'
Susanna MacRae, soprano
Get involved in as many things as you can, find the repertoire and stories which motivate you and bring these things to your audiences. Not everyone will love you; go where you are loved.
Helena Ricci, harpist & creative entrepreneur
I wish my playing to feel like a musical hug for the soul
Dobrawa Czocher, cellist & composer
I am most proud of those performances when I am able to forget everything else and just become music
Yuri Liberzon, guitarist
Being a musician for me is much more than something that I do; it is my life on many levels. It satisfies me emotionally and intellectually.
Eleanor Weingartner, clarinettist
One of the things that most fascinates me in music is the manipulation of rhythm and pacing. I enjoy seeing how a composer sets up a sequence and expectations in a given phrase or section and then varies it to lead the listener to an unexpected place.
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