Latest Blog Posts for The Cross-Eyed Pianist

• Meet the Artist……Fabrizio Chiovetta
  on Mar 12, 2015 in General interview with musicians interviews with pianists male pianist Swiss pianist
  Who or what inspired you to take up the piano and make it your career? My older brother used to play the piano, so there was a piano in the house which I ended up spending more time with.   I loved to imitate what I heard and to improvise.&...
• ‘Variations for Judith’ at the University of Kent, Canterbury
  on Mar 9, 2015 in General
  ‘Variations for Judith’ is a set of 11 short reflections on ‘Bist du bei mir’ (G H Stölzel arr. JS Bach). The Variations were composed as a special gift for Judith Serota when she left the Spitalfields Festival in 2007 a...
• A post for International Women’s Day
  on Mar 8, 2015 in General
  I have interviewed and reviewed many female composers and performers during the lifetime of this blog. To celebrate International Women’s Day 2015, here are a selection of these interviews (in no particular order nor preference): Janina Fialkow...
• The Virtuoso Teacher – seminar with Paul Harris
  on Mar 7, 2015 in General Teaching music teaching Paul Harris simultaneous learning the Virtuoso Teacher
  Renowned educator, writer and clarinetist Paul Harris, author of innumerable books on sight-reading, music theory and music teaching as well as original compositions, led a seminar based around the ideas set out in his seminal book T’he Virtuos...
• Meet the Artist…… John Metcalf OBE, composer
  on Mar 5, 2015 in General British composer contemporary composer interviews with composers Welsh composer
  Who or what inspired you to take up composing, and pursue a career in music? I fear my answer may sound pretentious . . . When I was 12 years old there was a single moment when, while out walking, the idea came to me to be a composer and it was an id...
• An impressive debut: Antonii Baryshevskyi at Wigmore Hall
  on Mar 3, 2015 in Performance review concert review piano competitions Ukrainian pianist Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall debut
  I seldom select concerts to review based on performer. An interesting programme is usually what will pique my interest, and this was certainly true when browsing the Wigmore’s spring season of concerts: it is unusual to find Ligeti and Messiaen in...
• Mindfulness and piano playing
  on Feb 28, 2015 in General flow states intelligent practising meditation mindfulness practising mindfulness the mindful musician
  The other day I was on my way to my Monday job (I work as an assistant to an elderly writer who lives in London’s Notting Hill). My train drew into platform 1 at Earl’s Court station. I alighted the train, crossed the platform and boarded...
• The surprising world of synaesthesia
  on Feb 27, 2015 in General synaesthesia synaesthesia and memory Synaesthesia and music
  Article from ‘The Psychologist’, vol. 28, no. 2, February 2015 In its simplest form Synaesthesia is best described as a “union of the senses” whereby two or more of the five senses that are normally experienced separately are involunt...
• Meet the Artist……Wim Henderickx, composer
  on Feb 26, 2015 in General Flemish composer interviews with composers interviews with musicians male composer
    Who or what inspired you to take up composing, and pursue a career in music?  The intention to become a musician came very early. As a small boy I was mainly concerned with percussion. When I was sixteen composing started to fascinate me, esp...
• Sublime and Ridiculous: Ivo Pogorelich at Royal Festival Hall
  on Feb 25, 2015 in General
  Guest review by Tristan Jakob-Hoff Whatever you may think of Ivo Pogorelich’s piano playing, there is no doubt you will think *something* about it. He’s not a pianist who inspires an indifferent shrug, nor a polite round of applause. With...

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