The following 55-minute interview was filmed in 2021 in Hamburg, Germany, to celebrate Martha Argerich’s 80th Anniversary, but it was published more recently by Paramax Films and produced by Christophe Boula. The interviewer, Daniel Kühnel, is the Artistic Director of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and he established the Martha Argerich Festival in Hamburg in 2018….
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International Women’s Day 2019: The Pianist as Composer
To celebrate International Women’s Day, I want to share this lovely performance of one of my piano pieces, recorded by American pianist and writer Rhonda Rizzo. Rhonda lives in Wisconsin. She has made several CD recordings, and has just written and published her first novel, The Waco Variations. She chose to record Inflections which is…
A few thoughts on demonstration
Interviews with great pianists are always interesting, and this I know first hand, after speaking to forty concert pianists in my series Classical Conversations, but one particularly fascinating interview popped into my timeline recently. Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin spoke to Frederic Gaussin about his life and work. Detailed, in-depth and searingly honest, Kissin reveals his…
Federico Colli in conversation with Melanie Spanswick
This is the twenty-eighth interview in my series and my guest is Italian concert pianist Federico Colli. Federico won the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2012. I chatted to him at Jaques Samuel Pianos in London. Find out more about Federico, here. Here’s the transcript for those who prefer to read the interview: MELANIE SPANSWICK:…