Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music? I became inspired at the age 16 to pursue a music career because of
Tag: interviews with pianists
Jonathan Biss, pianist
you spend every day touching these masterpieces but you never come to some end point where you can say “that is just the way I want it” because you’re always looking for more in them. That is exactly what is so wonderful about them too, but it is simultaneously what is very difficult
Katya Grineva, pianist
I loved playing piano the moment I touched it for the first time. There was never a question of me doing anything other than becoming a concert pianist
Sarah Nicolls, pianist
The singular greatest challenge I’ve experienced is the result of asking “why don’t we change the shape of the piano?”. It turns out this is at least a life’s work!
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.
MEET THE ARTIST 