Meet the Artist

From left to right from top:
Joy Lisney, Jan Vriend, Christine Stevenson, James MacMillan, Thomas Hewitt Jones, Leon McCawley, Nicholas McCarthy, Elspeth Wyllie

Meet the Artist is a series of interviews in which musicians, composers and conductors discuss inspirations, influences, repertoire, performance, recording, teaching and more. The interview takes the form of a short questionnaire, loosely based on the Proust Questionnaire.

If you would like to take part in this project, please download and complete a Meet the Artist Questionnaire.

Forthcoming interviewees include: pianists AyseDeniz Gokcin, Bruce Brubaker, Christopher O’Riley, Gregg Kallor and Joseph Middleton; Tamsin Waley-Cohen, violinist ; Maggie Cole, harpsichordist and fortepianist; and composers Jocelyn Pook, Ben Parry, Robert Saxton, Graham Fitkin and Robert Hugill.

The interviews:

Rozenn le Trionnaire

Lara Melda

Rustem Hayroudinoff

Janina Fialkowska

Richard Black

Jonathan Powell

Nimrod Borenstein

Nathan Williamson

Madelaine Jones

Nina Kotova

Rachael Forsyth

Lara Downes

Clare Hammond

Kimiko Ishizaka

Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Stephen Farr

Alisdair Hogarth

Gabriel Crouch

Louis Ryan

John Mills

David Lee

Tra Nguyen

Robert-John Edwards

Pierre-Arnaud Dablemont

Rachael Young

David Ianni

Elena Riu

David Ianni

Bridget Cunningham

Sarah Beth Briggs

Harry Bennett

Rika Zayasu

Stephen Reck

Paul Smith

John Reid

Thomas Kemp

Emmanuel Vass

Kevin McFarland

Simon Desbruslais

Richard Bates

Elspeth Wyllie

Peter Donohoe

Jennifer Johnston

Tim Benjamin

Alan George, Fitzwilliam Quartet

Mahan Esfahani

Craig Stratton

Jane Wilkinson

Clara Rodriguez

Scott Inglis-Kidger

Joy Lisney

Alex Woolf

Jan Vriend

Nicholas McCarthy

Keith Snell

Thomas Hewitt Jones

Leon McCawley

James MacMillan

Christine Stevenson

Melanie Spanswick

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