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Apart from playing trombone in the school band and the usual radio pap, I discovered music in a serious way at a relatively late age – when I was around 12. That was around the time I went crazy over an abandoned piano and thought I could learn to play all the Ludwig van Beethoven sonatas in a year or so “if I applied myself.” At least I didn’t lack for foolhardy ideas about how music actually works. A year or so later I began my first attempt to compose a symphony — to “prepare the way” for the opera on "King Lear" for which posterity had destined me — when I discovered with horror that my main theme in E major had been stolen by Anton Bruckner. But I’ve been trying to make up for lost time ever since, and music is a passion inseparably ...more

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Reflecting on the 2025 Honens International Piano Competition

Élisabeth Pion was named Gold Laureate at the 2025 Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary (Tim Nguyen)

My report on the 2025 edition of the Honens Competition, which I attended in Calgary in October, has been published here by International Piano magazine.

For a few days in October two leading piano competitions overlapped. In Calgary, gateway to the Canadian Rockies, the 2025 Honens

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