Paul Kildea
Author of Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music
About the Author
Paul Kildea, artistic director of Musica Viva Australia, is a conductor, writer and former artistic director of Wigmore Hall in London. He is the author of Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century.
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- male
- Nationality
- Australia
- Birthplace
- Narrabundah, Canberra, Australia
- Places of residence
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Education
- St Edmund's College, Narrabundah
University of Melbourne - Occupations
- conductor
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- Opera Australia
Aldeburgh Festival
Wigmore Hall - Short biography
- expert on Benjamin Britten
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I would strongly encourage having YouTube and headphones at the ready while reading this, so you can listen to the Preludes when Kildea describes them, especially for where different pianists have wildly different interpretations of these improvisational sketches.… (more)