MEET THE ARTIST

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.

Karen LeFrak, composer

June 12, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

The greatest pleasure is hearing the musicians rehearse, perform, and bring to life my compositions. While musical notations of phrasing, dynamics, articulations, and tempi are written into scores, it is the artists’ personal interpretations and individual talents that make each live performance so special and unique.

Dustin O’Halloran, composer

June 11, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Those are the best moments; when you’re collaborating with others and they share a way to find something new within music, and you’re thrown out of your own head.

Evelyn Bates, Pianist & composer

June 10, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Growing up with classical music I’ve always felt that music should be very complicated for listening in order to be ‘’great’’. With my first EP I’ve tried to avoid complex ideas. I wanted to go back to my influences and roots, but simplify the language that I’m using in order to be understood by the audience.

Gabriel Hays, composer

June 9, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

the greatest challenge is to remember to take pleasure in the journey of being a composer rather than being overly focused on end goals. Obviously, we have goals, but sort of ironically, the best way to get to them is to stay engaged in the day-to-day process and find joy in that.

Philip Klein, composer

June 9, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Being a musician is being a lifelong student. I think knowing that this a journey for the rest of your life puts you in the mindset to always challenge yourself and continue to grow.

Jodyline Gallavardin, pianist

June 8, 2021 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

The greatest challenge is for me to try to believe in myself and to follow my need to express myself through music, because it has always been necessary to me, like breathing, like talking.

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MEET THE ARTIST

Elizabeth Llewellyn, soprano

Alison Balsom, trumpeter

Rowan Pierce, soprano

Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn player