On Friday and Saturday, I’m giving two days of my own masterclasses in ‘The Art of Piano Chamber Music’. (Click on my Concerts and Events tab for more details.) I have some great participants this year – the Trio Paul Klee from Paris, the Trio Atanassov from Paris, the Lawson Trio from London, and the [...]

On Saturday I played the third of my Mozart Series concerts in Perth Concert Hall with Erich Hobarth. We were both very struck by the quality of the audience’s attention. In any winter season, there are often outbreaks of uncontrolled coughing in the audience, but it seemed as if the entire Perth audience had completely [...]

I’m on my way to Perth in Scotland, for the third of my Mozart Series programmes with violinist Erich Hobarth. We’ll rehearse today, and the concert is on Saturday evening at 7.30pm in Perth Concert Hall. Please come along, Perthshire music-lovers! Mozart popped up on the news pages this week in a surprising context. Daniel [...]

It was lucky I didn’t have to play the piano much while I was in Austria, because I have been nursing a small injury to my right hand. It happened back in December when I was playing a solo programme including Ligeti’s ‘Musica Ricercata’. In the second piece, as the composer later revealed, there’s a [...]

Here are all the winners of the Graz Competition on stage at their Gala Concert on Thursday evening. Two piano trios, three Lieder partnerships of singer and pianist, and three string quartets (not all of whom are visible in the photo). For details of who won what, here’s the competition website. After listening to all [...]