Episode #1 „What would Heinrich say?“ As the founder of MOVING CLASSICS, the Internet channel for modern piano music, I often wonder what Heinrich Marschner would have thought about such a channel in his times. You do not know Heinrich Marschner? Wel
Multi-award-winning film composer and former concert violinist, Ros Gilman, releases new single “Falling Snow” aimed for the festive season. „Falling Snow“ is a calm and gentle piece for solo piano, with a positive and “wintery” feel, which aims to
I would like to invite you to join Italian composer Vincenzo Napoli with his “Richiamo al passato – Call to the past”. The touch of nostalgia in the world of modern piano music. Read more about Vincenzo in his insightful interview here: https
„Satie Obsessions“ is a piano collaborative project featuring the variations on the theme from Erik Satie’s Gymnopedie No. 2. The idea came from Kris Lennox in March. His suggestion was to create a modern Hexameron i.e many composers collaborating, and
I stumbled across one thought provoking sentence in the book that I am currently reading. It is „The Serendipity Mindset – The art and science of creating good luck“ by Dr. Christian Busch. As the title says it, it is a method to turn the serendipitous m
The first Composition of Ennio Morricone that grabbed my attention was Gabriel’s Oboe. I love this simple, honest and soaring melody. Ennio Morricone has his own language with emotional fortitude and deep Italian film tradition. The Brazilian composer Joao D
Uncertainty was yesterday, today is chaos”. This was the title of an article that I read last week in the Harvard Business Review. Does the increasing complexity in life have an influence on the way the composers of today write music?
I have known Piotr Lachert for 3 years, and he was one of the biggest influences on my understanding of music and piano playing. In fact, he was the first to introduce me into the world of new music. I met him in Facebook, I think he commented on my „C
I have been often asked why I play new freshly composed works by living composers of today. This is all about the joy of discovery. I love the idea of zeitgeisty music – it is the living music put into life by the composers of my times. We share the same
Happy to be included in Top 40 Piano Blogs. Here you can find Top 40 Piano Websites, Blogs & Influencers in 2020, from teaching piano to performance tips and new piano music. https://blog.feedspot.com/piano_blogs/
Last weekend I visited the art exhibition „Feelings“ in the „Pinakotek der Moderne, Munich.“ The idea behind this exhibition was to intuitively approach art from an emotional perspective. The curators wanted to find out to what extent does our view of
Who is not at heart a globe-trotter? Are we not all fascinated by different countries? A musical portrayal of some of the interesting things composers saw on their travels, a tonal description of the impressions and emotions they had awakened. For all piano mu
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