Review of a remarkable memoir on suriving cancer from Fred Scott, virtuoso pianist and composer:
One Autumn Day: Surviving Cancer
Fred Scott
Soundpractice
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This is a remarkable, touching,...

When ‘Return to Eden’ meets RNCM: Two new suspense thrillers set around Manchester and its world famous music college

The intense, hardworking concentrated hours spent beavering away as a musician in...

Musical Necromancy: Liszt’s Fantasy and Fugue on BACH and Busoni’s Fantasia Contrappuntistica




For nearly twenty-five years it was a touching and generous habit of Ronald Stevenson to send me parcels...

This year's European EPTA conference is being held in June at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo from 25th June onwards and focuses on the folk tradition in western...

Looking forward very much to an intensive three day visit back to Aberdeen in a few weeks' time for a masterclass on 12 June, Recital on 13th and Tchaikovsky first...

June is going to be ultra busy as the weekend after three events in Aberdeen sees me back at my old University and the West road concert hall for a...

Looking forward to performing six Beethoven Piano Sonatas this Saturday- 9 November at the Camel House, Macher in Lanzarote. Included in the programme is op 13, op 81a and...

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Had a wonderful week as a member of the jury on this wonderful piano competition.

This weekend saw the start of the new Guernsey region of the European Piano Teachers' Association. Huge thanks to pianist and teacher Briget MacRae for her enthusiasm and hard...

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MUSICAL POINTERS (re divine art dda21372 Ronald Stevenson piano music):
Just in time for Christmas comes this, one of the very most important and entertaining piano recordings...

Dame Maggie Smith: A Master class Artist for Pianists

Truly magical, towering and moving performance from Dame Maggie Smith in Dustin Hoffman’s film Quartet, out today. Below is...

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Murray McLachlan Live DVD recording from RNCM. Francis George Scott (1880-1958) is the outstanding Scottish composer of songs in the 20th Century In the same way that Liszt transcribed...

Just returned from a very happy afternoon at Birmingham Conservatoire. It was a great pleasure to give a 3 hour masterclass to some delightful and talented students. Really...

CLASSICAL MUSIC SENTINEL (re divine art dda25105 Russian Piano Music vol. 9 (Weinberg):
The final Allegro molto of the Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 5 by Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996) is a...

Having a fabulous weekend in Sweden and enjoying beautiful, lugubrious Stockholm immensely- the setting for a really happy, buoyant 2012 EPTA European conference. Gave a Lecture on 'Creativity...

September is always recovery month - in the immediate aftermath of the marathon that is Chetham's Piano Summer School- as well as being the start of a new academic year....

Feeling very sentimental and touched at the re-release this month on Divine Art of my 1997 six Vainberg piano sonatas. Seems so long ago, yet memories of the old...