‘You didn’t just wake up, did you?’ After many Facebook messages, negotiating times here and there to try and arrange a convenient time to talk, my phone finally buzzes unannounced on a Saturday morning, causing me to leap up and

With already a Decca album under his belt at the age of 22, Martynas Levickis is a concert accordionist ready to take on the world and its assumptions of the accordion. Quickly skyping in between concerts at the world-famous Schleswig-Holstein

French harpsichordist and conductor Emmanuelle Haïm is one of today’s most celebrated interpreters of Baroque music. After a decade performing as a harpsichordist with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, she began her career as a conductor with the ensemble

On a cold, crisp morning, I prepare to meet Ji Liu at the Royal Academy of Music, his place of study for the last six years. Over a cup of tea, we chat about his time there and what the

Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki is one of the most exciting musicians of generation. The recent recipient of a Gramophone Young Artist of the year award and fresh from his debut disc of Chopin’s Ètudes, he maintains a busy performing schedule

A Sincere and Serious Pianist There is a certain seriousness about Russian musicians. I remember talking to Valery Gergiev once after his rehearsal with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; every note, for him, is about life and death. In fact, this

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