British composer – Page 4 – MEET THE ARTIST

Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, composer

January 8, 2024 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Stay true to yourself and write the music you feel compelled to write, whatever form that takes. Authenticity is everything.

Patrick Hawes, composer

December 8, 2023 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Your music, more than anything else, is a voice which is speaking from you those things which words cannot express

There is something intrinsically motivating about composing something that has been asked for – it feels more purposeful to write for the actual performers, or a situation where you know the music will be heard.

Phillip Cooke, composer

September 9, 2023 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

I came to contemporary music as an extension of the alternative rock I was listening to at the time – I don’t see why anyone couldn’t do the same if the path was open to them.