Interviews

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The Breadth of the 20th Century: A Conversation With Dmytro Choni
In his debut album, winner of the 2018 Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition, Ukrainian pianist Dmytro Choni, has chosen a recital of Debussy, Ginastera, Ligeti and Prokofiev. This wide-ranging repertoire is seen by him as all having different characters
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#LiveFromHome With the VOCES8 Foundation
The Coronavirus chaos has seen many arts organisations and individuals take to the online world in creative and engaging ways to keep on reaching out to their audiences, the vast majority of whom will be on lockdown for the foreseeable
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Creating Anew for the World We Want
An Interview with Işıl Bengi
Pianist Işıl Bengi left her home country of Turkey to attend conservatory in Belgium. As an ex-pat, she’s faced the problem of longing for home, but knowing that she must stay where she’s successful. To honor this dilemma, her new
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In Touch With Wasfi Kani, Founder of Grange Park Opera
Tell us a little about your background and how your interest in music and specifically opera developed. I was born in 1956 in Cable Street in London’s East End, and I am the only opera impresario who spent their childhood
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Interview With Pianist Andrew Garrido
“I Always Look for Something That Will Push Me Towards Greater Playing”
Young British pianist Andrew Garrido taught himself how to play the piano using a homemade paper keyboard because his mother couldn’t afford piano lessons for him. Now he is studying at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and performs
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Bach to Choir: Bringing Bach Into a New Century
Cellist Sophie Webber had a long-standing idea that Bach’s Cello Suites could be made more accessible. In many ways, they stand as these beautiful and isolated jewels, created through a relationship of a player and her cello and the music
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Invisible and Visible: An Interview With Roger Vignoles
We spoke with pianist Roger Vignoles, one of today’s leading accompanists, about the dual role of the accompanist in music: invisible in the background and yet a visible and audible part of the music. On an upcoming concert in Hong
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The Range of Song – An Interview With Christoph Prégardien
The first question we asked German tenor Christoph Prégardien was how he rehearsed with his accompanist, since Mr. Prégardien lived in Berlin and his accompanist for his upcoming March concert in Hong Kong lived in London and they both had
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