MEET THE ARTIST

Angela Hewitt, 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.

Alison Balsom, trumpeter

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.

Bertrand Chamayou, 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.

Nitin Sawhney – musician, composer and producer

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.

Alice Sara Ott, 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

Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano

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.

Merel Vercammen, violinist

September 16, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

The experience of a live concert is what has always inspired me most; the atmosphere and vibrations of a hall or special place, the expectations, the excitement, the communication, the feeling of tension and releasing tension. What I love about a live concert experience is the feeling that you are creating a unique moment in time, in history even, in which everything is special.

Zygmund de Somogyi, composer & Curator

September 13, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

It’s no secret that avant-garde music communities outside of the classical spectrum have managed to evolve, thrive and be culturally relevant among the wider music populace. You have to ask yourself why classical music isn’t reaching those same heights.

David Cesky, composer

September 6, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

For classical music to be relevant it must reflect the time and culture in which it was created.

Arthur Fagen, conductor

September 4, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

The most challenging part is also the most fulfilling – becoming one with the music in a way in which the orchestra and audience feel at one as well

Grace-Evangeline Mason, composer

September 2, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

The concept behind each work is extremely important to me. The first step of composing any piece begins with my interaction with an extra-musical source inspiration, and from that I form the idea and the all-important title, which becomes the identity of the work

Noah Max, composer

August 30, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Exploring a new work with other musicians is always a very special privilege. Once a piece is written, composers morph from being a‘ creator’ figure into a ‘mechanic’ working in service of the players. Music lives and breathes just as human beings do.

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MEET THE ARTIST

Angela Hewitt, pianist

Susan Bullock, soprano

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