“As a writer and performer of solo piano music, the piano itself is the only tool I use in recording and performance to tell a musical story and convey all of the required emotional nuances. The piano that I play is more than just an instrument: I use the piano how an opera singer uses their voice. The piano becomes an extension of my body: together, the piano and I are ‘as one’.”
Read MoreWhen Poul Henningsen created the PH Grand Piano in 1930, he challenged the concept of how a grand piano should appear. Poul Henningsen observed that the wooden cases of traditional grand pianos restricted the sound and vision of the piano as an instrument and that traditional wooden cased grand pianos were effectively instruments being played ‘inside a box’
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