The late bloomer the late bloomer

Maurice Ravel has been an enduring part of my world, both as a performer and teacher. As a little girl I played the Mouvement de menuet from his Sonatine at a piano competition, which the renowned pia

First, a full disclosure: I asked four organisers of some of the most popular residential piano courses if they could put me in touch with former students who might be willing to share their experienc

I have Sir Neville Marriner to thank for pointing me in the direction of the podium. It was in conversation after a long Academy of St Martin in the Fields tour of Germany in 2004 that Sir Neville fir

As series three of The Piano reaches its moving crescendo, Mika , Jon and Claudia reveal their highs, lows and audition pieces

How does the world end? If it’s going to be a pianistic apocalypse, at least in Nikolai Lugansky’s hands, it’s worth waiting for: his transcription of the ‘Immolation Scene’ from Wagner’s Götterdämmer

It was the Viennese critic Hermann Bahr who likened Mahler’s arrival in a hotel lobby to a gust of wind forcing open a window, or water bursting from a pipe. There’s something similarly elemental abou