
Forgive me if I don't list a lot of useful piano related websites. If you
really want to find such material on the internet, I suggest you start at the
excellent and fast growing links service at www.musicteachers.co.uk.
Instead I am going to list those sites that relate to my background - a sort
of internet biography if you like.
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My Life in Webpages |
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Manchester Grammar
School - I loved my time at this great school. I was taught by some of
the most inspiring and multifaceted men I have ever met. |
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Timperley Parish Church
-Down the road from my family home, the church where music began for me
thanks to a great choirmaster called Duncan Budden. He was a talented
charismatic leader and turned a small parish choir into a 40+ touring
ensemble in under 18 months. He taught me to sing, read music and gave me a
life-long enthusiasm for choirs, organs and the solo voice. If it hadn't been
for him, I wouldn't be much of a musician now. |
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York
Minster - My first experiences as a musician were as a chorister. I
inevitably gravitated towards the organ, the king of instruments. I first
performed at York Minster when I was sixteen. It is a breathtaking English
instrument in a building of dumbfounding beauty. |
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Pembroke
College, Oxford - Sleepness nights writing essays, hangovers, hectic
concerts, amazing people, months on end in the library and the influence of a
couple of utterly brilliant dons made my time at university splendid and
unforgettable. |
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Lycée Molière,
Paris - I taught here for a year as part of my Modern Languages course.
Paris has to be one of the most rewarding places on earth. |
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The Royal Northern
College of Music - Marjorie Clementi (a keyboard teacher of sheer
genius) worked with me for two years before I entered the RNCM as a postgrad.
There I found it to be an inexhaustible source of challenges, inspiration and
opportunity. Undoubtedly one of the world's great conservatoires. |
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Phoenix
Artists Management - I established this classical artists agency with my
gifted friend, Allan Beavis. Together we manage a portfolio of about 25
international operatic and concert artists worldwide. Hard, stressful work with
amazing hidden rewards. |
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