Episode 2 of the Piano 101 podcast with The Cross-Eyed Pianist and Dr Michael Low is now available on YouTube, Spotify and SoundCloud
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Piano101 is a new podcast presented by Fran Wilson The Cross-Eyed Pianist with Dr Michael Low, a pianist and teacher based in South Africa.
Piano 101 aims to cover all things piano, from practising and repertoire to teachers and teaching, stagecraft and more…. Piano101 welcomes comments and suggestions for topics for future episodes.
In this first episode, Fran and Michael discuss that perennial issue for so many pianists, professional and amateur – performance anxiety
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The Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast invites three people who play, listen or otherwise work in classical music to sit and discuss the subject they love. They’re unplanned conversations recorded as live, very nearly unedited, and more often than not take unexpected twists and turns.
In this the second Thoroughly Good Podcast to which I’ve contributed, Adam Gatehouse, co-Artistic Director of the Leeds International Piano Competition, outlines the changes the competition has undergone since the retirement of Dame Fanny Waterman (the competition’s founder), in addition to more general conversation about communication in performance and why the core canon of the piano repertoire is special.
Armenian-American conductor Tigran Arakelyan, creator of the Off The Podium podcast series, interviews Frances Wilson, founder and author of The Cross-Eyed Pianist, about her unusual path into piano teaching, the creation of the blog, concert reviewing, “changing the vocabulary” in teaching, and more…..
More about Off The Podium and links to other podcasts in the series here
My first podcast is a contribution to a longer piece by Bachtrack.com on Piano Today. It features a fascinating interview with Piotr Anderszewski, one of the most insightful, intellectual and profound pianists working today, a round up of forthcoming piano recitals around the world, and my thoughts on the sometimes tricky art of reviewing piano concerts. Hear the full broadcast here:
The Cross-Eyed Pianist 