MEET THE ARTIST

Isata Kanneh-Mason, pianist

July 21, 2026 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

‘Having the freedom to choose your own projects and the confidence to be able to give all of yourself to them.’

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Steven Osborne, pianist

July 14, 2026 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

‘I think it’s our job to love the music’

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Katia and Marielle Labèque, pianists

June 18, 2026 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

‘Music has the power to transcend boundaries. We can feel it when that happens in concerts, and that feels like success.’

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad, composer

April 10, 2026 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

‘The most important thing is to feel you are writing the best music you possibly can. But it’s nice to be busy (but not too busy), to be valued by your peers, and to be appreciated by your audience too.’

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Daniel Kidane, composer

November 24, 2025 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

‘Keep on keeping on and be happy along the way. The journey isn’t always easy but it should bring you happiness.’

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Helen Grime MBE, composer

November 3, 2025 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

‘With each new piece, my intent is to create a new sonic world distinct to that piece. I love to create different layers in my music, and I am often drawn to detail and long expressive lines as well as rich harmonies.’

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Allan Clayton, tenor

October 20, 2025 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

‘Perform as much as you can: whether it be at your school, the local pub, the village hall, busking outside Argos…’

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Nikolai Lugansky, pianist

July 26, 2025 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

‘There’s no substitute for practice, but what truly nourishes my inspiration is simply listening to music.’

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Yulianna Avdeeva, pianist

October 11, 2024 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

In every concert I share a part of my soul, and my soul in turn keeps the memories of each single concert

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Xuefei Yang, guitarist

February 26, 2024 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Be true to yourself, and remind yourself why you want to be a musician

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MILOŠ, guitarist

October 13, 2023 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

There are maybe 100 other things we could have done, but we chose to be musicians

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Emma Johnson, clarinettist

May 11, 2023 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

My primary school offered me the chance to learn the clarinet when I was nine and I loved it from the word go.

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Nathan Henninger, composer

August 11, 2025 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

‘Always make music that you love’

Matteo Pagamici and Michael Künstle, composers

August 8, 2025 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

‘Write as much music as you can and to always challenge your own hearing and your own writing’

Sophie Pacini, pianist

July 29, 2025 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

‘Staying true to the essence of what moved me to make music in the first place’

Paul Berkowitz, pianist

July 28, 2025 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

‘Inspiration cannot be manufactured’

Andrey Gugnin, pianist

July 24, 2025 The Cross-Eyed 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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