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
Tag: Meet the Artist
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
Rowan Hudson, jazz pianist
The nature of improvised music means that it’s very rare that everything falls together perfectly in real time, and in a way that’s not the point. There’s a Miles Davis quote where he says something like ‘I can play music all night, but there will only ever be about 8 bars where I really nail it’, and I know what he means
Alice Sara Ott, 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
Mihail Doman, composer & pianist
There is no such thing as talent. There is only work, work and work.
