MEET THE ARTIST

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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Alice Sara Ott, pianist

October 15, 2017 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

My parents took me a to piano recital when I was three because they couldn’t find a babysitter that night. I don’t remember the pieces the pianist played but I was fascinated by the power of music that made the audience quiet for nearly two hours. I thought that if I learned this “language” people would also listen to what I want to say

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Nathalia Milstein, pianist

March 11, 2017 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

The greatest challenge, which will probably last all my life, is trying to understand how to be completely myself on stage, how to convey my own ideas without getting distracted by anything else and be 100% into the music

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Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano

November 12, 2016 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

My musical heart is definitely in baroque music – anything from Purcell to Handel to Bach makes me feel entirely at home. I’ve always been completely at one with the style and harmonies of the baroque period, and there’s nothing from that age that I wouldn’t love singing.

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Daryl Runswick, composer

May 10, 2017 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Theft from everyone – those I don’t admire just as much as those I do. High formal rigour, extreme interpretational looseness. Scafra, fractal structures, dot music, free serialism, modes, canon.

Tony Hymas, Pianist and Composer

May 6, 2017 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Probably playing at short notice for Frank Sinatra at the Albert Hall (someone in his team was indisposed). His drummer warned me off anything ‘flashy’ – “Mr Sinatra don’t like no concertos”. But the great man said, “Aw, let the kid play” (what a gent!).

Holly Roadfeldt, pianist

May 3, 2017 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Surround yourself with inspiring people. Find a mentor or, better yet, find several! Never be afraid to keep learning. Perform music of all eras. Work with composers who are writing today.

Antonio Iturrioz, pianist

April 28, 2017 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Who or what inspired you to take up the piano and pursue a career in music? There was always music in my home when I

William Howard, pianist

April 22, 2017 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

I tend to judge venues as much by the pianos they offer as well as their acoustic. The Wigmore Hall ticks all boxes for me. While I love performing in its acoustic, it also has one of the best-maintained Steinways in the country.

Adam Schoenberg, composer

April 18, 2017 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music? My father is a world-class piano improviser, and my mother is a lyricist and

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