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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Gezim Myshketa, baritone

May 30, 2022 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

The biggest challenge in a career today is to stand the test of time. In a world that runs fast and where a new opera singer is “baked” every minute, being successful after 15 years on stage is, for me, the greatest challenge won

Jack Hancher, guitarist

May 29, 2022 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Don’t be afraid to try things musically. Experiment. Always keep an open mind to new suggestions and ideas. Question other interpretations of the music you’re playing. I think all of these are key to finding your own voice.

Tim Reader, conductor

May 28, 2022 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Master at least one other endeavour to a professional level. You won’t be any less of a musician, it will almost certainly feed into your music-making, and it gives you an alternative if (God forbid) there is a repeat of 2020, or if you just change your mind as you get older. It’s harder to retrain later in life.

Trio Con Brio Copenhagen

May 27, 2022 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Success for us has a lot to do with communication with our audience whom we give to and receive from

Emma Halnan, flautist

May 25, 2022 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

I strive to perform all works with my heart and soul, but I suppose my best performances are of pieces which I particularly love, working alongside fabulous musicians

William Susman, composer

May 23, 2022 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Always write what is true to you at that moment in your life. Do not try to copy or emulate others because someone tells you that is what is current or necessary.

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