 What a luxury it is to play music that someone else has already gone to the trouble of writing! Performance has always been a wonderful antidote to composition for me, and I make an effort to play as wide a range of music as possible: solo, chamber, ensemble, old, new… I am lucky to have been taught by two excellent piano teachers: Kate Elmitt when I was growing up in Hitchin, Herts (1985-92), and Karen Evans whilst I was a student in York (1992-96). Whilst at Harvard I also had occasional tuition from Stephen Drury (New England Conservatory) and from Robert Levin. The following extracts are from a piano recital I gave at the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, University of Manchester on 19th April 2007:
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Diablo Canyon (world première)