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		<title>Meet the Artist&#8230;&#8230;Christopher O&#8217;Riley, pianist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 16:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who or what inspired you to take up the piano and make it your career? My mother taught me to read prior to kindergarten. The nuns at St. Athanasius considered this a problem, as i would be bored and get into trouble. they offered piano or French lessons at $15 a week as an ultimatum. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=5815&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Concert review: Piotr Anderszewski at Queen Elizabeth Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 10:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I purchased my ticket to hear Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski almost a year ago, to avoid disappointment: he is a pianist I&#8217;ve long wanted to hear live, in particular after seeing &#8216;Unquiet Traveller&#8217;, the wonderful and quirky film about him by Bruno Monsaingeon. In it, Anderszewski revealed himself to be a sensitive, thoughtful and original [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=6184&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meetings with extraordinary pianos</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 13:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I had the very interesting and unique experience of meeting and playing some rather special pianos which reside at Hatchlands Park, near Guildford, home of the Cobbe Collection of keyboard instruments. The collection includes not just pianos (including a number with very famous and unusual connections, autographs and provenance), but also harpsichords, spinets [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=6168&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Artist&#8230;&#8230;Jocelyn Pook, composer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who or what inspired you to take up composing and make it your career?  I came from a family in which music and art was important. To this day I don’t know how my mother, a single woman raising 3 children with no money, managed to pay for piano lessons for all of us, but [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=5209&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Piano Notes &#8211; Phillip Fawcett</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How long have you been playing the piano?  33 years, since age 12, sparked off by a friend in the first year at Lancaster Grammar School. I didn’t so much as touch a piano before this and took little active notice of any music, although I remember my father playing records of ‘Your Top 100 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=5953&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Piano Week &#8211; a piano course for children &amp; adults</title>
		<link>http://crosseyedpianist.com/2013/05/20/piano-week-a-piano-course-for-children-adults/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piano Week is a new non-residential piano course for children and adults, set in the beautiful north Wales countryside near Bangor. The initiative of pianist Samantha Ward, Piano Week offers courses for pianists of any age and ability. Participants will have the opportunity to perform on a beautiful Steinway grand piano in Powis Hall at [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=6155&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to pass a music diploma</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the rather glib title, there is a serious intent behind this post. As someone who has taken two performance diplomas in fairly quick succession (less than 18 months apart), I want to offer some advice and support to those who are preparing for diplomas. First and foremost, don&#8217;t be under any illusions about these [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=6159&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>London Piano Meetup Group launch party</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 11:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The launch of the London Piano Meetup Group at Peregrine&#8217;s Pianos on Saturday 18th May was a very enjoyable and successful event, very well-attended, and friendly. Hosted by Lorraine Liyanage and myself, we had six performers playing repertoire by Gershwin, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Brahms and Rimsky-Korsakov, and all the playing was of a very high standard. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=6148&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Artist&#8230;&#8230;Robert Saxton, composer</title>
		<link>http://crosseyedpianist.com/2013/05/18/meet-the-artist-robert-saxton-composer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 10:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who or what inspired you to take up composing and make it your career? I started the recorder at school, the violin and piano. I always preferred writing music down to practising! Who or what are the most important influences on your composing?  As a composer, I was influenced technically, and partially aesthetically, by Elisabeth [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=5946&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Britten at 100 &#8211; Simon Desbruslais premieres ‘Shakespeare Scenes’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British trumpeter Simon Desbruslais (Meet the Artist, 5 September 2012) will premiere &#8216;Shakespeare Scenes&#8217;, a new work by Robert Saxton at a concert given by the Orchestra of the Swan on Friday 24 May in Straford-upon-Avon. Robert Saxton was given early composition advice and encouragement by Benjamin Britten, which is well documented in John Bridcut’s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=5555&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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