‘Stay true to yourself and carve out your own career path’
Tag: collaborative pianist
Roger Vignoles, pianist
Never apologise for yourself, and remember that success in the profession depends not only on how well you play or sing, but also on how you work with others.
Lucy Colquhoun, pianist
I would absolutely lay down my life for Lieder!
Simon Lepper, pianist
The biggest challenge is to continue on your own path and not panic when there’s a blank page in your diary. It does fill up! But I sometimes feel you have to have the attitude of a gambler to work as a freelance song pianist: one day a singer cancels but the next a singer might call.
Keval Shah, pianist
I feel very close to the songs of Hugo Wolf and love the process of analysing the detail of his writing and trying to figure out what he might be doing with the music. Playing songs is fascinating because you get to go inside the mind of a composer and get a sense of how they read poetry. In a way, songs are little acts of translation – the poetry as read by an individual, transformed into sound.
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