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Peter Donohoe CBE, Concert Pianist, Vice - President of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

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In the years since his unprecedented success as Silver Medal winner of the 1982 7th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Peter Donohoe has built an extraordinary world-wide  career, encompassing a huge repertoire and over forty years’ experience as a pianist, as well as continually exploring many other avenues in music-making. He is acclaimed as one of the foremost pianists of our time, for his musicianship, stylistic versatility and commanding technique.

  • 23:37 - let's talk about your studies with Messian
  • 25:48 - what roles does music play in the modern society and what is my role
  • 32:05 - I felt I had a visitation from Mozart who came and said it's time
  • 56:05 - I don't need to practice the works that I am playing

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