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DISCUSSION: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Composers, individuals or collective?, including contributions from David Arditti, Halida Dinova, Robert McCarney and Jane Stanley.
British pianist Christian Blackshaw was born in Cheshire on 18 January 1949. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music with Gordon Green, at the Royal Academy of Music, and was the first British pianist to study with Moisei Halfin at the Leningrad Conservatoire. He has also worked with Clifford Curzon.
Blackshaw has collaborated with many leading orchestras and has appeared at various festivals, internationally, and has given a complete Mozart piano sonata cycle in Bristol.
Classical music news. Toradze International Music Festival - The Toradze Foundation presents the second edition of its music festival in the Georgian capital Tbilisi
Dramatic Excitement - Christian Blackshaw has begun his Mozart piano sonata Marathon in London, and Bill Newman was in the audience