I am not a bad pianist, know a lot of music and can sight-read anything with ease. |
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My dad had been a trumpeter, too, but became a pianist because it was easier to make a living that way. |
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Ever bashful, Rolf bounded towards the dais and whispered instructions in Howard's shell-like, believing he was the house pianist. |
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With the recent death of Belgian pianist, composer and arranger Boland, these two wonderful big band reissues are worth checking out. |
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The pianist augments many of these mid tempo pieces with lilting harmonics, a deft right hand, and well-placed chord clusters. |
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Apparently Jennie was a promising ballerina and pianist until she became possessed by Beatle mania. |
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The admirable Japanese pianist, Haruko Seki, here applies her refreshing lightness of touch to some of the solo piano pieces. |
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The leader is a pianist and horn men Greg Gisbert and Brad Goode are among the soloists. |
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For a large man the pianist leader here has kept a rather low profile musically on the local scene. |
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The pianist wants us to hear everything, and he relies on his legato playing to prevent the music from sounding dry, even skeletal. |
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Take the case of a small lime hosted on Friday 13 by jazz pianist Raf Robertson. |
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The pianist won the gold for an intricate, playful and minutely precise combination performed to a potpourri of Russian melodies. |
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A virtuoso pianist, he taps not only Cuban rumba and yanqui jazz but digs deeper into his African heritage. |
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He is an accomplished pianist and a licentiate of the Royal School of Music. |
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Proud mums made the decorative costumes and one even volunteered her services as a pianist. |
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But there's no real-life pianist savant here, no cutesy romance, no saving grace. |
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The piano music rose to a crescendo, the pianist pounding on the keys so loudly Jane covered her ears. |
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Ben's mother Helen is a talented classical pianist and she has forsworn a musical career for her marriage to Edward. |
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Haas, a twenty-one-year-old pianist, is in her senior year at the University of Pittsburgh. |
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They suited her to a fare-thee-well, and her excellent pianist and the violist, too. |
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Berns studied classical piano as a child, and worked as a record salesman, music copyist and session pianist in his teens and twenties. |
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When a pianist has played a series of concerts, prejudices are dropped and the critics will praise irrespectively. |
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I'm more of a flautist than a pianist, but I still love to play when I get the chance. |
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Made up of a guitarist, a drummer, a bass player and an electronic pianist, the band will refresh and even relax you. |
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David was a natural musician who taught himself to play the piano after watching a female pianist at his local pub. |
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We would then have our pianist pick his own background music and start to play somewhere in the skit. |
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Oh, the percussionist also played a whistle and in the final movement the pianist and flautist played plastic wood blocks. |
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Gould, a pianist himself, has written several concerted works for the instrument. |
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Sometimes, as the pianist said, the conductor would leave the rostrum and lock himself in his dressing room. |
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The analogy with a Chelsea footballer or a classical pianist is completely off the mark. |
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Movies are a great source of memorable melodies, and the latest to enter the orchestral arrangements field is composer and pianist Brian Byrne. |
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Clearly a musical talent, Warren became the pianist and bandleader for the Everly Brothers for the next two years. |
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In between he pursued a highly successful musical career as a pianist and composer. |
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After a while, a guy came into the bar, wandered over to the pianist and handed him a loose-leaf book of sheet music. |
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He soon began to work in barrelhouses and jukes in Helena, Arkansas often working with pianist Lee Green. |
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The theatre had a pianist who played music according to what was happening on the screen. |
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The Canadian pianist was a law unto himself, singing as he played in a grumbling basso. |
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A singer, composer and pianist, her music has now spanned over four decades. |
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At certain times there is live music provided by a pianist or instrumentalist. |
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A pianist is preparing to tickle the ivories for 15 hours to raise money for her church and help people battle breast cancer. |
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In Vienna, a dissipated pianist is about to flee the city to avoid fighting a duel the next morning. |
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Turning around a last corner, she finally had a clear view of the piano and its pianist. |
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The pianist plays silent notes on this keyboard at specific moments of the piece in order to change the state of the hyperinstrument software. |
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I was astonished to hear a couple of side-musicians criticize the great pianist for turning the clave around. |
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He is the pianist for the choral department at Bozeman High School and the Bozeman Symphonic Choir. |
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In 1955, he worked as a rehearsal pianist and choral conductor at the Teatro Colon, the city's opera house. |
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On the other hand, the Accelerando Series is a useful supplement to piano instruction for the elementary pianist of any age. |
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This telegenic Chicagoan pianist was the highlight of the Barbican's concert. |
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It's certainly not easy for a jazz pianist famous for swing to turn over to bebop. |
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Esther will bring her own Birmingham-based band, with some challenging arrangements by pianist Gerry Spencer. |
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He could hear the smoothness of the singer's voice, the suaveness of the pianist playing. |
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Indeed, the pianist Egon Petri once said Czerny wrote all of those studies because he hated children. |
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The pianist had grand piano, harmonium, honky-tonk piano and celeste, and the percussionist had a range of tuned and untuned percussion. |
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The outstanding rhythm section included pianist Claude Hopkins, Arvell Shaw on string bass, and Buzzy Drootin at the drums. |
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With Bob Finch's string bass at his side and pianist Si Perkoff or Bob Smale percolating at the keyboard, they generate a remarkable drive. |
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He is a first-class pianist and organist and has composed music and written and published his own poems. |
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Jamil Sheriff is the pianist with Joel's band and he will be taking his own octet to Leeds College of Music on Wednesday. |
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I could not count much on her, as she was a much better pianist than an oarswoman. |
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Some arrangements include jazz solos, and since they are notated, they allow the classical pianist to study their construction. |
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Something else they share is that neither is recognised as a virtuoso showpiece for the pianist. |
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Walker began his musical career as a virtuoso pianist, with composing and teaching work coming later. |
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The complex chromatic, often dark harmony, and caressing Latin-American lilt was impelled brightly by the pianist. |
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She is a fine pianist, straddling jazz, pop and classical styles, and the instrumental breaks on her debut album are solid. |
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Born into a musical upper-class family, he showed early promise as both composer and pianist. |
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I heard not a few gasps of shock from the audience as the pianist moved from near silence in lento to a sudden ferocity in attacca. |
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The virtuoso pianist has not spoken since being found soaking wet, dressed in a dinner suit, in Sheerness, Kent, 11 weeks ago. |
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Taking his cue from these greats he developed to become perhaps the busiest pianist on the London jazz scene for the past 40 years. |
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Sigrid accompanies the Bryan Chorale and serves as pianist at Hixson Presbyterian Church. |
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The late pianist, who died in 2002, was the ideal accompanist for many singers. |
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Abandoning a promising career as a virtuoso pianist, he became an influential teacher. |
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The brilliant young pianist was in the city to give a solo concert under the auspices of the Russian Cultural Centre. |
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He performed as a concert pianist and professional accompanist throughout the Midwest. |
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He also has performed for many years as a chamber music pianist and piano accompanist with and for artists around the country. |
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An accomplished classical pianist and a double first in Maths Physics, he was always a man apart. |
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An accomplished pianist, Edward Said wrote some of the most surprising and sharp essays on music. |
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The 12 th marquis was an accomplished jazz pianist and his elder son likes to chill out with his guitar. |
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Claire is an accomplished pianist while Carthage plays clarinet, piano, flute and guitar. |
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Outside medicine he was an accomplished pianist and loved his garden and the nearby Lake District. |
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Busoni's hitherto unparalleled magnificence as a pianist was naturally reflected in a substantial amount of music for piano. |
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By the age of 13 he had written an opera and was becoming an accomplished pianist. |
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The pianist offers delectable readings of romantically inclined music from a variety of composers. |
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The pianist then began the wedding march and everyone turned back to the doorway. |
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A tuxedoed pianist plays soft jazz to entertain the smartly dressed clientele that occasionally drift in. |
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Not only is Keith a great pianist, he is considered one of the world's leading experts on classical jazz and ragtime music. |
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Articulation is critical the pianist must observe and execute staccato notes and slurs with real style, or the piece will fall flat. |
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At one stage the pianist was plucking the strings of a grand piano to emulate a sitar. |
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Schiff is a thoughtful pianist who doesn't put his fingers down on the keyboard until he knows exactly what he wants to say and how to say it. |
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One of these visitors was Johann Hummel, well known in his day as a formidable pianist outdone on the keyboard only by Beethoven himself. |
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Few would argue that as a pianist and electric keyboardist, he is out of this world. |
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That woman was an accomplished pianist who spends her little leisure time playing Brahms on the baby grand given to her by her late parents. |
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A fine pianist and singularly persuasive interpreter of his own music, Head was famous for his one-man recitals of his vocal music. |
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My position was also different from other students' because I was a rather good pianist and sight-reader. |
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Following hard on the heels of the German jazz group is an Indian jazz pianist. |
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The work requires a pianist with super human technique and dazzling virtuosity. |
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For this pianist rushing and slowing down in the cantabile sections while drawing attention to the downbeats over the barlines is a measure of profound expression. |
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What could be better than piano lessons from a babelicious pianist? |
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He worked with the pianist to get the tempi of the music precisely right. |
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In 1972 he signed a contract with Milestone Records where he developed as a bandleader and solo acoustic pianist, winning two Grammy Award nominations. |
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Who became an accomplished concert pianist before she tuned her ear to the more dissonant chords of international relations. |
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A smart new documentary from HBO, The Jazz baroness, captures the many sides of the jazz pianist. |
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Soprano Sarah Crane and baritone Shaun Brown join forces with pianist Bernadette Groot as they go walkabout with songs of travel, dreaming, love and seeking high adventure. |
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Frank became so accomplished that he played at professional gigs with pianist son David, and occasionally they were joined by their other son Mark, on washboard. |
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The genial German-born pianist Wolfram Rieger accompanies in a very sensitive way regarding both the demands of the composition and the needs of the singer. |
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Rieger prefers being an accompanist to being a concert pianist. |
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He has worked extensively with both singers and piano accompanists at many colleges throughout the United States and performed as collaborative pianist nationwide and abroad. |
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This interest was shared with his wife Vera, also an accomplished pianist. |
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So might a concert pianist, accustomed to performing on a Steinway grand, have been shocked when they wheeled in an old joanna from a neighbourhood pub. |
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The first concert for the year, on March 26, features virtuoso pianist Harold Brown, who has travelled the world performing solo recitals and playing with symphony orchestras. |
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The mother, Charlotte, a famous concert pianist, withholds her approval. |
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Their grandfather was a renowned concert pianist and composer in Adelaide. |
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Sal describes the jazz reverie of the pianist, Slim Galliard. |
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Often times, Simmons' band sounds remarkably like the traditional Coltrane quartet, with pianist John Hicks riffing off propulsive drummer, James Zitro. |
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Feather had recorded as a pianist, and although he would never put Oscar Peterson out of business, he knew his sharps and flats. |
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Young has a distinctive sound, whether arco or pizzicato, and this comes to the fore in the soulful and passionate performances in his conversations with pianist Walton. |
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At Copley, he also exhibited a continuous 80 slide projection, coupled with an audiotape, showing a nine-person chorus singing sea chanteys with a pianist accompanying them. |
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Few jazz musicians are experts on three instruments, but that's not the only thing that makes this accomplished trumpeter, pianist and drummer Brad unusual in jazz circles. |
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It is only when you go through to the long, plant-filled conservatory dining room that you realise the music is being piped from a dinner-suited pianist at a grand piano. |
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I remember seeing Bobby Short, the great lounge pianist and vocalist, on Johnny Carson once. |
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A skilful pianist, he played Beethoven at boozeroos solely for the satisfaction of hearing The Herd denounce him and clamour for the current top tune of the Hit Parade. |
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Thus, a pianist can practice comping or soloing in the bebop style by turning down the keyboard channel and then playing along with the other instruments. |
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Kvapil is a first-rank pianist with profound awareness of sonority and colour, yet also coherence and energy, and imbued with a heartfelt affinity for Czech music. |
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He told me his name was Malek Jandali and that he was a pianist from Syria. |
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The eccentric Canadian pianist shows up as a major character in the book, but the biographical facts are all wrong. |
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When a pianist hits a sour note, even the musically untrained can tell. |
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Concert pianist Marcel Zidani, an honorary member of the trust, who lives in Honeybourne, will play a composition he has written himself, at All Saints Church. |
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He also said the pianist may benefit from singing or playing individual parts, especially when there are transposing parts or those that use transposing clefs. |
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A concert pianist who is sitting down at the concert grand piano in Carnegie Hall in front of a packed house is the equivalent to an author publishing a finished book. |
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She also is the pianist for Meadowbrook Church and frequently accompanies instrumentalists and vocalists for competitions, auditions and recitals. |
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Unlike many other instrumentalists who control a musical tone from its beginning to its end, the pianist relinquishes control as soon as the sound is heard. |
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A few years ago, hitchhiking from Inverness to London, I was given a lift by an intense young man who turned out to be an Icelandic concert pianist. |
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Imagine what sort of pianist a twelve-fingered person would be. |
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The pairing of a veteran Cuban pianist with one of the rising stars of flamenco on a selection of Cuban and other Latin American standards seems to be a case in point. |
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This Dutch composer seems to have spent most of his career in Amsterdam, where he quickly attained local popularity as a pianist, flutist, and music teacher. |
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As well as being an accomplished craftswoman, she was a gifted pianist. |
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He's also found time to be the pianist on this unusual release, which includes seventeen of his short works for saxophone and twelve equally short preludes for piano. |
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Three-piece girl band Shine formed in 2000 after founding member and pianist Amy placed a local newspaper advert for talented performers to join her. |
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The chandeliers, the pianist playing Cole Porter numbers, and just the grandness of the room all add to the feeling that somehow you have been transported into a bygone age. |
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The American concert pianist and composer made his mark in Paris in the 1920's as a genuine enfant terrible, courting controversy and working hard for his notoriety. |
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On Tuesday the 24-year-old pianist and singer is set to perform a showpiece duet with highly regarded folk singer Katie Melua at the Brit's ceremony at London's Earl's Court. |
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Grieg was a pianist rather than violinist and his only extant string quartet came at a time of a rumoured affair between his wife and older brother. |
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One pianist who had been studying music arduously needed to go back and have fun with it before he could really begin the process of successful learning. |
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Tsveiba runs the dance school with another choreographer and a pianist. |
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The great pianist was a prolific composer, who wrote impeccably for the piano. |
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Inouye maintains a private studio in Durango, Colorado, where she is active as a solo and chamber pianist and harpsichordist. |
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The new band members are guitarist Jakob Bro, pianist Alexi Tuomarila, electric bassist Anders Christensen and drummer Olavi Louhivouri. |
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Concert pianist Stephen Hough, singer Thea Gilmore and her producer husband Nigel Stonier also reside in Cheshire. |
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For the audition, Nicole will play up her skill as a pianist by playing Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach. |
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Wedding music was provided by pianist Brian Eads and soloists Rachel Towery and Stephen Gross. |
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One afternoon in 1920. a young pianist sat down in a shuttered room in the capital of defeated Germany and played a Bagatelle by Beethoven. |
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The Indian concert pianist, music composer and singer Adnan Sami also studied at Rugby School. |
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Eighth and sixteenth notes flow gently into a dual cadenza of scalic patterns, with the pianist given a moment to shine as a soloist at the end. |
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Conway, who appeared in a string of Royal Command Performances, was once the most successful pianist in Britain, selling 20million records. |
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Franz Liszt was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, teacher and Franciscan tertiary. |
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Funkhouser regularly performs in Boston with his trio and quartet, and is also a sought after sideman as both a pianist and bassist. |
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Pato is a Galician bagpiper, pianist and composer, and Golijov a Grammy Award-winning composer. |
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Alan Nicholls turns up as a Texas-styled tenorist and pianist Mike Sanchez and Aisha Kahn will supply the vocals in this session. |
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Turley-Trejo is a fine pianist and has worked as repetiteur for the Utah Lyric Opera Company as well as a rehearsal pianist for Ballet West. |
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A YOUNG pianist who relearned the keyboard with ONE HAND after suffering a brain tumour has collected a music degree. |
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In 1969, blues great Waters was banged up in a car wreck, while his longtime pianist Otis Spann died the following year. |
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Among those to have shared a day room with the Surrey-born Cambridge graduate is a pianist who microwaved his parents. |
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Lajovic, recordist Maurice Steger, clarinettist Carol McGonnell and the first Eurovision Young Musicians winner in 1982, pianist Markus Pawlik. |
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Britten, though a reluctant conductor and a nervous pianist, was greatly sought after in both capacities. |
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An accomplished pianist, she has performed extensively as a recitalist and accompanist. |
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But for all his patiently accumulated winelore, the 81-year-old pianist, arranger and composer is more a drinker than a collector. |
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As a pianist, violinist and double bassist she first completed a bachelor of music degree. |
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Some of the newer members include a tres player, double bassist, percussionists and singers plus a very talented young pianist, Rolando Luna. |
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Britten was a celebrated pianist and conductor, performing many of his own works in concert and on record. |
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Intended for the beginning pianist, the book presents fingerings for major and harmonic minor scales. |
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Major performers included the pianist Frederic Lamond, and singers Mary Garden and Joseph Hislop. |
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Young pianist Tianhong Yang, the first Steinway Scholar at the RWCMD, plays a Haydn sonata, a Chopin Polonaise and Schubert's Wanderer Fantasie. |
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The composer, conductor and pianist Miroslav Ponc is a little explored and thus overlooked figure of the Czech interwar avant-garde. |
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She is reported to have been talented and respected, with aspirations of becoming a concert pianist. |
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One musician who wrote to the press to defend Rattle was the pianist Alfred Brendel. |
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Cravens killed herself in 1912, after the pianist Walter Rummel, long the object of her affection, married someone else. |
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Shaw maintained contact with Lee, who found him work as a rehearsal pianist and occasional singer. |
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With no formal training, he mastered the piano and became the family's pianist. |
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He is a proficient pianist and stated in a 1995 interview with Charlie Rose that he would rather be a musician than an actor. |
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In 1911 Russian pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff performed as a part of the London Ballad Concert. |
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Wagner's wife Cosima, the daughter of Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer Franz Liszt, was among the audience. |
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Since 1970, John's band, of which he is the pianist and lead singer, has been known as the Elton John Band. |
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Adolph tried to steer his son away from composition, hoping that he would have a career as a pianist. |
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Just over a decade ago, the bassist Charlie Haden played a drummerless New York nightclub engagement with the pianist Kenny Barron. |
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He hoped to become a pianist, but was prevented by neuritis in his right arm. |
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As a pianist and conductor in other composers' music, Britten made many recordings for Decca. |
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Recorder player John Turner, clarinettist omas Verity and pianist Ian Buckle will be joined by soprano Clare Wilkinson. |
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Among musicians is also the acclaimed pianist Cyprien Katsaris and composer and artistic director of the European Capital of Culture initiative Marios Joannou Elia. |
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At Yale she met Taira, an accomplished clarinetist and pianist. |
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As well as being a painter Janes was also an accomplished pianist, and like his friend Ceri Richards he saw parallels between the arts of painting and music. |
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The understanding between accordionist, John Hallam and pianist Vinny Parker was quite remarkable with ideas swapped or further developed during solos. |
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The applauder is played by Steve Furst and the pianist by Dave Bamber. |
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The big opening theme goes by lickety-split, and then when the second subject arrives the pianist practically stops the performance with his lingering tempo reductions. |
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This mature young pianist can convey everything with conviction, from poignant bell-like floating melodies, to torrential arpeggios and monumental pianistic nobilities. |
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Moiseiwitsch gave Sargent piano lessons without charge, judging him talented enough to make a successful career as a concert pianist, but Sargent chose a conducting career. |
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Honking horns and busy city streets, shimmering city lights and the excitement at a baseball game or a parade all come alive in Cityscapes by jazz pianist Eric Baumgartner. |
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When it says Mezzoforte in both parts, it often means that the pianist should be Mezzo piano and the violinist, for example, should be Mezzo forte-plus. |
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Also, pianist Albert Tiu will perform in honor of Franz Liszt's birthday. |
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Russian pianist Ekaterina Mechetina will perform in the UAE for the first time at a new classical music series called Dubai Allegro Moderato on October 24 at Madinat Jumeirah. |
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Lively show tunes being belted out by the pianist on the grand piano. |
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Another one is Alexei Lubimov, who is a Russian pianist, fortepianist and harpsichordist who studied with Neuhaus and Naumov at the Moscow Conservatory. |
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But Yan didn't feel quite ready for opera, and instead worked for the next two years as pianist and repetiteur with the National Ballet of Canada. |
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Elgar's sketches for a piano concerto dating from 1913 were elaborated by the composer Robert Walker and first performed in August 1997 by the pianist David Owen Norris. |
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The 2011 Proms also featured the first ever 'Comedy Prom' hosted by comedian and pianist Tim Minchin, as well as the debut of the Spaghetti Western Orchestra. |
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Ex merchant banker James Long, 31, got nine years, jazz pianist Tom Connell, 30, eight years and record producer Milroy Nadarajah, 33, seven years. |
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The young pianist was Polish-born Edyta Lajdorf who displayed a real feel for the rhythmic drive of the piece which concludes with a Stravinskian evocation of peasant dancing. |
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Two other Russian musicians who were close to Britten and regularly performed at the festival were the pianist Sviatoslav Richter and the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. |
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His wife, Clara, a former pupil, was a talented singer and pianist. |
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