It was a pleasure to answer @CrossEyedPiano’s questions for her wonderful Meet the Artist series – a privilege to be part of such a thoughtful musico-journalistic project!

✨ 4 days to go ✨ My new album, Odd Sympathies, featuring music by 11 composers, launches on Friday this week! 🔗 Listen and pre-order now via Apple Music / Spotify / Amazon or my website: https://t.co/eKaDbDysEg #OddSympathies #NewMusic #ContemporaryClassical #PianoAlbum

This is Charlie Gee One of the world’s most respected and renowned stonemason His work in performing restoration works on Cathedrals throughout Europe is some of the best A skill set that is becoming rarer to find and master in a more modern world He’s only 23 years old

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✨ 6 days to go until album launch! ✨ 🎹 Odd Sympathies features music by 11 composers (clockwise from top left): Colin Riley, Paul Spicer, Cecilia McDowall, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Michael Zev Gordon, Robert Percy, Tim Watts, Diana Burrell, Roger Briggs, Jeremy Thurlow, Martin

✨ 7 days to go until my new album, Odd Sympathies, launches! ✨ 🎹 24 tracks of contemporary piano music 🎶 Works composed specially for me by leading composers 🎼 Tributes to musical inspirations including Haydn and Joplin 🔗 Pre-order now via Apple Music / Spotify / Amazon or

🎹✨ My new album, Odd Sympathies, is launching soon – on 17th October! ✨🎹 This collection features 24 tracks of contemporary piano music, most of which were composed specifically for me. The album also includes tributes to composers like Haydn and Joplin, showcasing the

The tragedy of a PhD is that you do all this work and then no one ever asks you what ontological means

44 YEARS AGO: In Oct 1981 I launched the Amstrad TS35 twin-cassette audio system – it taped tapes! Amstrad had set the template, and in the years that followed, every audio manufacturer in the world – including the Japanese and European giants – produced twin cassette audio

🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them. 🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.

I have mentioned the glorious GPO Tower with its fantastic revolving restaurant (run by Billy Butlins!) on here a few times, but found this short video clip and had to share it with you… #london #history #eastend

This is what Canterbury looked like in the 50s https://t.co/0r2aXjaKZs

🎉 Single release day! Another track – the final single! – from my forthcoming album Odd Sympathies on @FirstHandRecord is out today: 🎹 Roger Briggs – Jitterbug Centred on the quintuplet as an aptly odd-numbered rhythmic embodiment of the 20th-century dance, Jitterbug is as wild

Manami Ito, a Japanese violinist who lost her arm at 20, shows that passion and determination can overcome any obstacle.

I often think this. When I was a child, conkers were like gold-dust; I know, as I went hunting them in the autumn, and if you went too late there were none left! Seeing a pile of them near the path the other day, I couldn't help but pick some up and start to hoard :)

🎶 New Interview 🎶 I recently spoke with Rishin Singh at Composers Edition about my forthcoming album Odd Sympathies on @FirstHandRecord. This project means a great deal to me, as it reflects years of collaboration with composers whose voices I’m proud to help share. Read more:

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During the week I sat for an hour with a man who has terminal cancer. He can no longer swallow and he knows he doesn't have long, but his brain is fine. He was full of praise for his palliative care team. He has very little pain, can breathe well, doesn't have any nausea now. 1/4

The reaction of the baby who wears glasses and starts to see clearly for the first time.