Will Pickvance: Piano Diaries

by Will Pickvance

Fragments of life, memory and absurdity played out at the piano. An hour of virtuosic piano playing, storytelling and improvisation, An improvising pianist's attempt to memorise a Bach masterpiece. As his mind wanders, so does the music – through stories, jazz, cinematic textures, even a nursery rhyme, before always finding its way back to Bach. Performed in the Pianodrome, the world's first amphitheatre made entirely from pianos, this is a unique Fringe experience. 'Combines epic musical improvisation, hilarity and intimate storytelling' (ThreeWeeks Editors' Award). 'This is what a pianist in the 21st century looks like' (List).

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