Who or what inspired you to take up the piano and pursue a career in music? I began piano at a very early age, like
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Richard Hinsley, pianist
Who or what inspired you to take up piano and pursue a career in music? My late mother encouraged both myself and my two older
Marcus Paus, composer
I am a lyrical writer at heart, but I enjoy virtuosity. My eclectic background lets itself be heard most prominently in more energetic passages. I like economy, and clarity of form and content, and I strive to make my material distinct, in order to give my music an internal sense of memory.
Alexandra Harwood, composer
Concert music comes with a blank page and asks only what I have to say, which I find much more challenging. At the same time it is liberating in a completely different way to the constraints of film music
Nicholas Ashton, pianist
Who or what inspired you to take up piano, and pursue a career in music? My father started taking me to concerts and to the