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Jun 24, 2020
8 min

Will it take Arts to be Silenced before they are Appreciated? Is their Resilience their Downfall?

Each of us feel we have a duty to reveal our individual experiences and hardships whilst recognising that so many others in different...

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Piano Diaries - Aside from the Monumental

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Jun 24, 2020
1 min

Piano Diaries - Aside from the Monumental

2020 should have been a monumental year. Concert Diaries where full of grand Beethoven-celebrations. He really was the first monumental...

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Jun 24, 2020
1 min

Piano Diaries - So many voices

Mass protests continue. But it feels like the agendas are getting diluted, usurped and hijacked. The graffiti is increasingly more...

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Jun 24, 2020
1 min

Piano Diaries - Why?

June started with so much grief and anguish, with the exposing of so many fractures in society. Lockdown is disintegrating with mass...

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Jun 24, 2020
1 min

Piano Diaries - Pushing Forwards

When things around you become fixated, repetitive it is easy to lose sight of how to push forwards. To be transfixed by a moment, rather...

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Jun 24, 2020
1 min

Piano Diaries - Morale

Strange times indeed. #Lockdown has relied on people explaining and preaching that it is a moral duty to abide by the rule of not...

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Jun 24, 2020
1 min

Piano Diaries - Decluttering

It was a surreal feeling to be reminded it’s a Bank Holiday. In many ways #Lockdown has felt like one long Bank Holiday. Even the...

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May 18, 2020
1 min

Piano Diaries - Movement

#Lockdown has really highlighted how easy it is to take #movement for granted! With the easing of restrictions taking small steps, the...

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May 11, 2020
1 min

Piano Diaries - Staying Alert

Today we wake up with a new slogan to guide our lives through this next #phase of #COVID19#Lockdown in the UK - #stayalert It’s hard not...

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May 8, 2020
1 min

Introducing... Piano Diaries

As #Lockdown stubbornly persists I would like to continue to think I can continue to bring a few moments of musical inspiration to you,...

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Apr 25, 2020
1 min

Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - Z

We have come to Z. The last letter in this project reflects the endeavours of Alexander Siloti. He pushed #piano #technique to new...

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Apr 24, 2020
1 min

Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - Y

When things get tough one of our strongest reactions is that to cling onto something of the past. Yearning for something that used to...

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Apr 24, 2020
1 min

Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - X

Sometimes the signs are all around us. Distractions, convenience of ‘ready-processed’ information, laziness, denial, closed-minds and...

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Apr 22, 2020
1 min

Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - W

Has anyone else noticed the wonderful new #lockdown phenomenon where people walk out of the front door timidly, then gathering more and...

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Apr 22, 2020
1 min

Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - V

In the recent weeks we’ve heard far too much #rhetoric for comfort about #war, #restriction of liberties, #sacrifice and the instigation...

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Apr 20, 2020
1 min

Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - U

To say that 2020 has thrown an #unexpected spanner in the works is probably one of the biggest #understatements I can make. Oh well, in...

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Apr 19, 2020
1 min

Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - T

Today is Russian Orthodox Easter, so it’s a lively and joyful toe-tapping musical offering for the Lockdown PIano Alphabet. It’s a set...

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Apr 19, 2020
1 min

Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - S

#Simplicity requires by far the greater mastery, command of your craft, and empathy, or perhaps compassion, of your environment. The...

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Apr 17, 2020
1 min

Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - R

The murmurs about when and how #Lockdown will end are gathering momentum just as it has been extended for another three weeks. People are...

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Apr 16, 2020
1 min

Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - Q

I never thought I’d think, let alone say this, but - as the Government has officially extended #Lockdown by 3 more weeks - when will we...

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