Category: General
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Thoroughly Good Podcast
I was delighted to take part in Jon Jacob’s Thoroughly Good Podcast project with composer Thomas Hewitt Jones (who happens to be one of the first people to feature in my Meet the Artist series). We met in the crypt bar at St John’s Smith Square (one of my favourite music venues in London) to…
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An Autumn Sonata – a personal journey through Schubert’s penultimate piano sonata: the Andantino and the Scherzo
This article first appeared in The Schubertian (No 97 January 2018), the journal of The Schubert Institute (UK) Startling contrasts – the Andantino and the Scherzo The second movement of the Sonata in A, D959, marked Andantino, is quite unlike anything else that Schubert wrote. Described by pianist Jonathan Biss as “a composed hallucination”, it…
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Off The Podium podcast
Armenian-American conductor Tigran Arakelyan, creator of the Off The Podium podcast series, interviews Frances Wilson, pianist, piano teacher, writer and author of The Cross-Eyed Pianist, about her unusual path into piano teaching, the creation of her blog, concerts and concert reviewing, “changing the vocabulary” in teaching, and more….. More about Off The Podium and links…
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Ask me a question – interview for ISM Music Journal
I’m delighted to be featured in the July/August 2015 issue of the Incorporated Society of Musicians’ Music Journal. Read more about my musical activities, inspirations and plans for the future here (click on the image to enlarge it):
FRANCES WILSON 